Final Thoughts and Podcast Rating

Well, hello there. Wlcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's Ed Gamble here, the host of the aforementioned Taskmaster podcast Very excited today. We are talking about Task Master Series twenty one, episode eight. And you may have noticed that I'm in my house I'm not in the caravan. This is a Zoom episode. I hope you've watched Taskmaster sereries twenty one episode eight. Sorry, we're not in the caravan, but we felt like we needed to get this guest on the show. It is of course, former Taskmaster contestant from series nineteen He lives in America. It's Jason Manzuchas We're not going we're not going to turn down Manzukus. We're not going to not get MzZuus on. Oh we? come on You know, and we're also not flying him over to do to do the Task Master podcast. that that would be insane and it's not within my personal budget or within the budget of the Task Master podcast U Alex probably could have shelled out for it, but he said he didn't want to. He just mumbled at me down the phone. But very excited to be speaking to Jason Love Jason, brilliant on the show. Can't wait to chat to him again on the podcast. Let's get on with it. This is Task Master Series twenty one episode eight, as discussed by Jason Manzuchas Welcome back, Jason to the Taskmaster podcast. Yeah, let's go, asshole. Jason is bouncing around his house. Two very different men, I'd say. Yeah, D't tell them that. Don't let them in on the secret. Actually, quite similar. I'd say just slightly less dancing around and you didn't call me an asshole immediately. You asked me how I was. E though you were twenty minutes late Even though I was so understanding because you had a photo shoot I was a fucking asshole. I was not twenty minutes late. I was told Jason's going to be ten minutes late So what I did was I sat here and waited for Day to text me when you were on ' my office is boiling. We're in a heat wave. I'm very end of my tether anyway, Jason, so don't give you this bullshit at the top of the. Oh he' spicy. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, Spicy air is joined the show We're here to talk about Taskmaster Jason, which you famously you famously took part in series nineteen. Y legend, your legend still rings loud and true in this country. And as far as as far as I'm aware, just socially, have they done another season Yeah, there was there was a whole other season straight after yours and now we're on whole we're on a whole other season. This is season one Wow, I don't hear anything about that. All I hear is just the adulation of people talking about season nineteen, baby And you know what I'm happy to say season for you because you are in America right now. We're on Zoom. I'm very happy you've joined us. so I'm happy to speak your language season Wise. Oh, I love it. Is that your American accent? with the you really opening that mouth wide. Is that what you guys think Americans talk? Wh you got What you do is do the mouth wide and let the tongue go dead Is that the advice you were given? Guine I think I know why you're not getting these parts. Genuinely the advice I was given was to let your tongue just go completely floppy. Oh, that's interesting. I bet that's right. Yeah, our accent is just a lazy dead tongue But it's lovely to have you here, Jason. it really is. I'm thrilled to be here to talk about a fantastic season of Taskmaster ave you Have you been keeping up to date? Have you been watching every episode Absolutely, absolutely. I'm loving this season. I think this season is great. And once again, as always, it is a joy to meet and discover people that I did not know prior. You know, I do not know Amy Gladhill stuff. you know, Armando Ynci, of course I know, I know Vep, I know some, you know, But like Joanna Page is I'm obsessed with Yeah I know kind of who she is, but I've never seen Like the I've never seen what Joanna Page is famous for. So to me, my joy my joy is watching her just do Taskmaster I think in even the most delightful way Even most people in the UK, this is a new introduction to Jo Anna Pagjo. Is that right? ye because she's she's most famous for Gavin and Stacey, which is an absolutely gigantic sitcom. It's one of the biggest UK sitcoms of all time you know, she plays a very sweet, very funny character in that show. I think this is the first time a lot of people are being exposed to Joanna Page and her absolutely wild personality Oh, okay, so her person so she's known primarily as an actress and her her actual personality is not a cultural touchstone for you guys. No no that's good to know I will be Wow, what a gir like watching her do this stuff is pure joy. It is a delight. I'm enjoying her so much. And then Kamale, Camlee Nanjiani, who When I did my season of Taskmaster, I said to him, buddy, you got to check out this show. You're going love it. And you should you should try and get on this show. I introduced him to Taskmaster. He was like at first he was like, I don't think it's good. I think it's bad. Yeah, yes. And then I said, take another look. watch my season. And then he said, Oh, now I get it. He's gonna be so mad, I say. I could those texts are gonna arrive He's not going he's not going to be happy about this. How are you enjoying Camillle's work on this on this season? Love. Love it. I love it. I'm really enjoying watching him like just I think Camle is you know, he's having that thing where I'm watching the internal struggle at all times, which is absolutely delightful. in the same him Partnered is so funny in that team of three. Joel as well I'm sorry, I didn't mention Joel at the beginning. Again, Joel is someone like Amy that I didn't know at all. and his childlike wonder is absolutely nuts. Like he is. So watching him, Amy and Kamale bounce off each other is absolutely hilarious. I'm obsessed with this cast. I think it's great canan you see within Kamalle something which I don't think you had, which is a desire to win and get points? Be of course you had to destroy en Gulf in F flames, etcetera. Sure. But sure. I think Kail Kamail's mission is yes, cause some chaos and be funny, but also I think there is a burning need within him to get points. He is here is I think that less like me, I would say that Kumil is Gambellian in his desire to want to win and get points and then his self recrimination upon absolute failure as, you know as Ed Gamble himself, I think, would admit, was his issue as well. Yes. Yes. And I think Camail's going to be gutted to hear that because I believe going into it, his only aim was to not be like me Oh whoa. Oh seeee, that's it. I mean, yeah then I mean, that's it. If if you're saying I don't want to be like that, you know you're like that. Yeah exactly. I think that's that's the insight. phhysician heal myself. And you can't the show, it's been said many times before, but the show, you can't, you can't conceal your personality in this. It will come out No, and I really and this happened to me so very vividly, which was I really felt like I could maintain my persona inside the show and found it to be absolutely constantly trying to strip it away reve and reveal what's underneath And I didn't like it one bit. Do think do you think it did strip away anything from you, Jason? Because it felt to me like you maintained a lot of your persona or did you find that when you peeled your persona away, it's simply a more concentrated version of your persona underneath? Well, it's funny because there would be moments and they didn't keep it all, but there were definitely moments inside of those inside of the what's on Alex's head where I did it for ninety minutes, you know If if they had chosen like I I said, here's, you know, I've got a couple of I've got a you know what, Ed? I'm glad I'm here because I've got a couple of I've got a couple of bones to pick with Taskmaster, Big Taskmaster. I asked them on the day, when we were shooting the ninety minutes of me guessing what was in Alex's hat. I said in that while having a nervous breakdown, it was hot like it is right now there. It was probably this time of year exactly. And Alex was sweating, I was sweating, I was miserable. and he said, I demand that you put the full ninety minutes of this unedited online They have not done it I demanded that they put the math and maths debate online. They have not done it. I have asked them This here's I'm going to pull I'm going to pull the fucking wholeo curtain back here, okay? When I enter when I was introduced every episode of Task Master I gave the audience the double finger Okay. Taskmaster cut it off like this. So every time when I just look like I'm doing this, which is which is weird. So I said to them, releaseube you release a YouTube of me giving the finger to everybody so they'll understand what's going on Nope, nothing. These assholes, they don't listen to a goddamn thing I say. I'm pitching gold, Ed, I'm pitching gold You're pching double gold. You're pitching double fingers. This is stuff. Look the season did very well. your season did incredibly well, but I feel like it's at least a million more of viewers in episode if they could see the double bird. I think so without a doubt. And know I know you're making fun of me But it would been massive. People People all over the UK would be giving the double American bird because you guys don't give this bird, right? No, we don't give that bird. We give the I mean, you give the finger situation. Yeah, well the single bird to me is so American. I don't know. I think the first time I saw that was in in the Mr. Bean film Uh where he o where he's Mr. Bean Stes whistler's mother. And he drives past some bikers and they give him the middle finger And then he thinks that's a greeting and goes round America people the middle finger. Yeah. So that's the first time I saw the middle finger, Jason. Okay. I think And I think one is good. One is though directed at an individual. I think two is for the crowd Tw covers the whole audience, you know? Yeah. ' you know, I don't want anybody to think, hey, this is for you. I want everybody to know, hey, this is for all of us Do you know the origin of the two fingers I don't actually, and I was actually going to ask. Yeah. It was during a war from olden times, the British used to do this to annoy the French army because if they caught the French archers, they would cut these two fingers off so they couldn't They couldn't use their bow And I wonder if there is any relationship to this becoming the peace sign Just reversed. I wonder if there's any kind of wall etymology for that. We're gonna put your fingers back on now that the walls are open. Yeah, everybody gets your fingers back Let's talk about this episode, episode eight of Task Master Series twenty one Okay hang on. Be before we get into it, I. By the way,'m so sorry. I have notes. Dont If you think I didn't show up with fucking notes, Ed, you're out of your goddamn mind 's I can't help but notice, Ed, that after my season, Yes, the next two seasons themes have both been dot dot dot America Yeah season twenty, the theme is like American Gothic, Americana, the farm, the heartland, all of that. You know, there the picture is the American Ghic picture America Okay? This season, guess what it is Route sixty six, the American automobile diners drive inss and dives with Guy Fieri. B the way I would love it if Greg did a drive across America, Guy Fieti style Uh food j as I'm putting that out there right now. I will co host. I thought you were going to say you'd love it if Guy was on T us must By the way Jes yet Good guuy Fieri on Taskmaster right now. Don't tell them what it is. Yeah. I would love for people to be able to nominate celebrities to do like a you know a New Ye's like a single episode type of thing so that Taskmaster would just befall a person who then would be like, what's happening? Like jury service Yes, exactly. ye. Yeah. Anyway. So I wanted to say that haa, I see what you're doing. I nailed your show and now everything's coming up America. And then my second my first peak behind the curtain was that I was giving the finger to everybody. My second peeak behind the curtain, I'll save till later Go ahead and start the show. Looking forward to it. The prize Task is an ordinary household object with personality. It's a lovely priice to us. We've all got something like that. Breat the house, I think. U do you have anything like that? I mean, obviously your haunted paintings are still there, which we've talked about. Yeah, but those are actually representatives. So like yees to me, you know what, when I watched it, I was thinking about it because One of the things that I would think of is and I can't show it to you because it's a sink in my house that if you are sitting only, if you are sitting on the toilet, lookingooking at the sink from that level The the shape of the sink itself, the knobs and the the little area where the cutout, the ceramic cutout or whatever, all look like a face looking at you shitting And what's the expression on the Sink's face as you like this So it's likeking it, It's enjoying what it. It's like it. It's like it's like a little like the, you know, it's the hole where the water would go into if it was going to overflow. It's just a little has a little bit of a hint of a smile. A cheeky smile as you do a shit. Lovely. Exactly So that's what you would have brought in your whole sink. I mean I was thinking about it and I was like, how would I do that? But that was the thing that jumped out to me first was the face on the sink 'causeuse I think about it every time I'm in there. And I'm like, what are you looking at, Creep Well, Camle brought in an ice maker which he has nicknamed loves Labaggasted Philip I think it was absolutely perfect. And just perfect two different areas Yeah, and also it was great to call him flabbergasted to give his look a name You know, to call out what he was how he was feeling Philip. I really enjoyed Philip. I think what I love about Camel doing this is he has put in, I think a lot of effort to this. He's clearly thought through. Oh yes he's not just gone Alf Labaggast with Philip. he's gone through everything in his surroundings to try and find something Oh yeah, that one and I don't know if you felt like this, but some of them feel like I feel like we are participating in a joke they started making when they saw that ice maker You know what I mean? Like I feel like they've been talking making this joke about, doesnesn't the Iice maker look like it's making this face? I feel like this is an inside joke he and Emily and their friends are doing. because didn't they see it at an Airbnb or something like that? Yeah. Like so this I feel like we're being l into a ye, I feel like we're being led into a private joke, which I always love when that happens when it's the reveal is Oh, this is what me and my family think is funny or strange or weird or interesting. Now here let's share it publicly What I worry about when I reveal things like that, you go, this is what me and my wife find funny and we laugh about at home. Everyone's going to go, That's not funny. yourour relationship is awful Yes No And truly, truly, and I've said this to you so many times, please look into therapy Please Ed, look into therapy, couples therapy, whatever you need Well, you were hanging out with my wife last week, actually. I was I met your wife, but you weren't. I wasn't there. I was away and my wife kept texting me saying, Oh no, they're opening another bottle of wine Oh it was terrible. Yeah. yeah. And I was Well just don't drink it. And she was like, no, that didn't seem to be an option, so. It was it was a sincere issue and I was wrecked because I don't drink like you guys do. Especially not starting that early on a Sunday when we're meant to be meeting a baby. What is going on What I will say is I don't think that's representative of British drinking as a whole, it's slightly skewed because Nish was there Yes. well, I couldn't we had the best time. Boy, did't we have a great time? You were sorely missed Thank you very much, Jason Speaking of wine, Joel brought in a corkscrew, one of the one of the ones with arms. I think we've all had that thought as it raises its arms up when we screws. I thought it was great. I mean, do I wish he would have put like some googly eyes on it or something? That would have been great. but I understood. I got it. was But it was pretty it was a light lift. It was, you know, it wasn't as good as Philip He also didn't tell a story whichich I very much appreciated Cumail's like personification of Philip, which was great What I would say about putting eyes on things and look, call me a kill joy. I would say that as soon as you put eyes on it, it's no longer an ordinary household object. You're adding yourity to yourself. I'm a kill. Thankk you very much. You're a kill joy. Once again, please go to therapy. I'm Ormando brought in a hole puncher next to his pator It looked like a big duck It looked like a duck that had been squashed by the printer. It was yeah, I thought hilarious. very funny visual. And again, something that felt to me like something he'd pointed out or someone had pointed out at some point. and he just used that because it looked how would you walk around what do you walk around looking for things that look like other things? No, I think you're like the way that I think about my sink always watching me do my biz You say Biz for number two? Of course, I gota have a business meeting I would love to say that's a Yeah, maybe maybe business, but I would never shorten it to biz. It sounds too cute for what's happening. Oh no, I got listen, I'm drinking a whole cup of coffee after this podcast. I'm gonna do quite a bit of hot Biz Amy brought in Linda the pregnancy pillow which was again The story behind it was fantastic and the reveal that Greg also alsoso has this pregnancy pillow. I love any insight into Gres into Greg's life. so good And when Greg is caught off guard and it has no other choice but to be revelatory is wonderful. Like when he can't help himself but tell on himself is the best Greg. It's I love it Yeah, Greg has no problem being revelatory, I would say. I think Greg puts when' caught inside of it I think sometimes he'd rather not. I think he wishes he didn't have to share, but he knows he does. Yeah Joanna brought in a simply called Gnome Pig It's just gnome pig. again, a real insight into Joanna's life, like all of the prize tasks You think it's just going to be the thing and she's going to describe the thing and then we somehow jump back twenty five years to the beginning of this story. So this to I'm going to say this on a macro level. this is my favorite narrative of the season or my favorite insight or whatever you want to call it, trope is Joanna's prize Task stories. They are always so long and involved, so personal, so interesting, and make her prize tasks, I mean her prizes, rather, which sometimes are wonderful and sometimes aren't increase in value exponentially because she is boy a to be storyteller And then add resol loose scoop. Yeah, and I feel like maybe the first two episodes of being in the studio and here in the full twenty minutes, people are so on board. And then you can see that as soon as she's like twenty five years ago, they're like Ohh my god Oh here we go again Oh, but that's the thing. If I had been in this cast I would have been egging her on every single story, just asking questions. Let's dig into that. Like I'm upset people aren't weaponizing Joanna's stories against her. Well, you know how long the record is anyway, Jason. It's like a three hour record as it is Well, you know that ours were longer. Ours were like three and a half to four. I wonder I wonder who I wonder what was different about that I wonder what was the different thing in that situation. Could it be the person who said he'd extend Joanna's prizedar stories? Absolutely. I mean for real. I mean the thing that ended in me saying what's gonna to happen when we graduate, the period prior to that line which ended the bit was, I'm gonna say twelve to fifteen minutes long of just mischief. And do you feel like it needed the twelve to fifteen minutes for that line to land orr do you think you could have gone straight to that line C couldn't have gone straight up of the line. They did that all of the iteration the edit They they did that perfect. because they took they built it the way we built it just without all of the architecture. Yeah. So are you saying now is this your next thing you're asking the Taskmaster team to do? Is you want the full Joanna Prized stories from you Oh, Joanna's. Yes. I would love that. I would love a channel. By the way, or just like, let's you and me approach Joanna to do a podcast. I just want to do a podcast that's tught that just let's ask Joanna basic questions about her past and see what's up. My favorite. It wasn't in this episode, and I apologize I'm jumping ahead, but my favorite thing just because we're on Joanna, was it was some episodes ago where she was saying, oh, it was when she was gonna to have to hold worms or spiders or something like that. Yeah. And she was so freaked out and she was so scared. And she was like, I'm just doing this for my children. I'm doing this for my kids or something like that And then in this episode, she's just busily taking her pants off and shoving things in her ass. I was like All I wanted, I was like, Joanna, this is your callback. I'm just doing this for my kids. Yes, we will get to her shoving things into her ass. Yes, we will urprise task wise it was two points for Joel, three points for Amy and Armando, four points for Joanna and the big five points for Camle and flabbergasted Philip. Joel, what have you brought in? A cor greatre great. Right. That's got so much personality. Well I't expect you just to have brought in any old corkscrew. Yeah, but look out because then when every time you get a bit of wine, you open it up and it goes Oh es the other way Yeah let It's why it' time. And he goes Now. Tk one, censor yourself unnecessarily. Most intriguing unnecessary censorship wins. You have twenty minutes, your time starts now Boy a wonderful D't I didn't I do a great segue for you right here introduced this exact task. Yeah. was it was perfect. is I'm not gonna lie you E This is fucking podcasting. This is This is what this is what we do This is it, isn't it? This is the true is is is this is high end podcasting. I know you podcast with another guy, but I'm just saying this This right here. This is itemiz. This is good stuff. This is gold. I would say also I think be a lot of there'll be a lot of task mas and podcast listeners who are quite happy that the podcast has returned to talking about the show gi last week, we had John Kearns on and I think we maybe talked about Taskmaster for about two and a half minutes out of Did you really I didn't listen to it. What did you talk about for the rest U Robot Wars, a show called Robot Warsraz Let's get into it on the BBC. We can't get. What season So here we are. It's Ed and Jason. We're talking about Robot Wars season four episode seven Chopper versus ding Dg Now here's the mo I mean, the movev is you want blades. I think you want blades. Yeah. you want blades. I mean, the one I designed in my head when I was a kid had a o boy. It fired a gun. I like that you put when I was a kid at the end of that, when we know there are sketches right next to your arms. Yeah, yeah, not I'm not showing them. I'm not show how to take the camera Agle the camera down, it's just all little models And I've just taken apart loads of printers and tys to and try and build it. so many roombas taken apart. No, We're talking about Taskmaster this week and I think I think that's a nice change from last week. Sense yourself unnecessarily is I would find this terrifying open creative task veryy difficult to know which way to go in that no one else is going to go in. You're obviously thinking nakedness, you're thinking language. Did you have any sense, Jason of what you might do, were this to be in season nineteen It's interesting. I was like I do that every time. I'm like, o, how would I have done? And I think I would have done the joel route of appearing to be nude but not be in like a public setting. I'm sure I probably would have tried to appear to be nude out in traffic, you know out front of the house or something you know in a way that felt like real people were gonna see. I think that's what I probably would have chosen just because to me that would be funniest U But how you have done that Joled and run and run up to a family Well, I think J Tp is really leaning into his athleticism I definitely to answer your question, I absolutely would have included a baby without a If anything, it might have just been all babies. You know what I mean? Like maybe it appears as though I'm naked trying to get her on a school bus or you know, something like that. But tastefully let's be clear, Ed. I'm talking tastefully. We don't really have school buses in the same way here of course because you of course have the iconic Uh the iconic yellow school buses. We don't we don't really And yours a double decker Well, yeah, but those are just like buses for everyone. So what you would have to do is get on Get on a b I hope there were some babies on there. You gott to get on wait for the night bus to come pick you up and take you to Hogsmead Yeah, Hoggs meet, that's right, yeah For someone who I mean, you can tell you really spend a lot of time in the UK. you really you've got all the references. I know all the spots. I've been to Covent Garden. I've been to Hogsmead. I've been to I've been to Fitzrovia, I've been to Diagon Alley. Listen, Ed, I've been all over your fair city And thank you for that. We love it when you come Oh Oh yeah. Oh, please, I'm spending my money at flourishing bllonds Yeah, so Joel makes it look like he's got no trouser or pants on running around. Let's talk about Joeanna because you gave me a lovely segue for that. She is it looks like she's shoving things up her back passage. Yes, it would be fair to say but Again, It's the performance of it. it's so simple. Everybody else is doing such like high end stuff and Joanna and Armando are basically just immediately headlong straight into chaos. O mo like unsuccessfully, let's be clear. And Joanna so successfully that it is shockingly funny Yeah, it's very it's very, very good. It's obviously absolutely horrific in terms of I mean, even though we know she's censoring herself unnecessarily, there is still that genuine feeling that she is doing so funny because it's like it's not AM Like Amy's story censored sounds dirty, but in reality is a story about a boy and his onion Yeah, you know Joanna's censorship is just, she's still mining the action of shoving things up her ass It's just being censored. I'ts not it doesn't appear as though she's in fact, when you take away the censorship, she's not trying to shove the pineapple uppper ass. No, she is. There's just pants in the way. Yeah So is in a way, it's a necessary censorship because she is covering up She's covering up a woman attempting yet failing to push a pineapple up her ass. Yes, but just a woman who just has is really wanting this bit of pleasure, but has forgotten to take her pants off Armando decides very quickly what he's going to do Oes away Joseph quickly ick says, arere you sure you want to go now? You should stop That's a warrning. You should say you should take that as a oh, let me think about this Yeah. what I would say about Armando is he is obviously brilliant. He is incredible. Everything he creates is amazing. He's been very funny on Taskmaster. But now and again Now and again there's a task where you can see his eyes go and he's like, let's just get this over with. Truly. And you're right. He has the and I I, you know, he has that u The the the uh Distinguished older player vibe who can sometimes be over it or not want to do it. And I will say, he's not over it. He's throwing himself into these tasks, the one from a few episodes ago where he was dancing embarrassingly in front of everybody, or the one where he looked like Ben Kingsley and was like jumping through frame and stuff. like he really is physically committing to all of this But you're right. Sometimes you can see him just be like, I'm done Yeah which I think we all felt. Yeah. This is very much one of those occasions, but it still made me laugh all funny. singing old MacDonald and screaming when held the picture up in front of his face. There is something brilliant. Oh he's doing his own censorship as well. Yeah No need No needs unnecessary inense. You We don't need your beeps. We don't need your beeps. Don'try about it. I got this Kamail let me just here's what I'll say. There is just one last thing about Armando is oftentimes when he does it like this, he's making it harder for himself Yes. He didn't need to do that extra work You know, there's been a couple of times where he's done extra work unnecessarily just because he thought he had to. Anyway, go ahead I think maybe that's what when I spoke to Amando on the podcast, he was saying that he found it very difficult when he was doing Task Master to get out of producing show head interesteresting. So he's constantly got those different brains going where he's like producing and, you know, directing and performing. He's got all of that going on. yeah So maybe that's pos of that. I like that Camail censored his nipples, of course. G I thought that was terrific. I thought so funny Uh and and and like a great I thought it was good because I liked the censorship being like Like Austin Powers' style, there's just objects aren' placed on the table in order to block, but then I liked it it didn't always work. Yes That's that's the Taskmaster version of it By the way, just I've been speaking about this a lot recently, Austin Powers everyone's got to go and watch it again I think it's I think it is criminally un. I think it's about to Oh it's Oh my god. it It's one of the greats. Oh my god Absolutely hious. imagine Like having again just been there recently and very accurate representation Okayee if you'd enjoy this, Jason, imagine you were flying back from Montreal in Canada and you were just trying to relax and get some sleep on a flight back.it Was I doing stand upp there? Was I didid I make it to new faces? Yeah, you were you were doing new faces. Okay. Yeah. and you did you did one of the galas, but like not one of the main ones sort of But you're your way. You're on your wayreking? I mean I'm on my way. Okay aad I'm it. So you're flying back and then you sit down, you're looking forward to a relaxing flight home And you see Ed Gambl in Nishcoma, right? to who weren't doing new faces, They were doing the the British gala Okay see you see them and they've decided they've to use the Air Canada system for in flight Entertertainment where you can watch a film at the same time as someone you're sitting next to Oh whoa. And they've decided to watch Austin Powers andam scream the cabin down laughing for these Oh wait for the first wit How is fly? Do Do one or either of them have distinct laughs I'd say I'd say that would be disruptive in an enclosed environment and might make me made me rageful if I was a passenger on that flight. Well, how does this grab you? Both of them Oh man, that is very funny. Yeah. I mean, great film anyway. Nish then what I agree. one hundred percent. full. Like I remember seeing it in the theater and going insane, trruly being like, how is this so funny Spy Shagme doesn't hold Anyway, it doesn not. It doesn not And There's good jokes in it. There's good jokes in it, but it's not it's not it's not a cohesive film E As much as we like Heather Graham, you know, her edition did not. not add anything character w. Don't lay it at her feet. I'm not. I said she's a wonderful per. you know. great. Blaming Heather Graham. is she's casting. This is that's not her fault. You gotta blame Mike Myers, Jesus Christ. But Heather Graham's character. Oh out Be before this, you said she ruined boogie nights as well. with shock Amy, of course tells a story about Alex and his massive onion, not his cock and I thought she did a wonderful performanceort as the childildren's TV Greg Hunter R And I like that she forced Alex to be on camera for it, which I thought was good. And he did a good job appearing to be uncomfortable Do you think he was appearing to be uncomfortable? In that instance, yes, because he was she was just talking about his onion You know I getting I Oh, I think he would' have been uncomfortable. but I think he's getting better as an actor. Yeah Is that possible? Is that I mean, I'm saying it out loud and I don't like it when I hear it. but he might be becoming a better actor After twenty one series of being dragged into various games, do you think Alex is finally getting some chops? I think so. I think maybe this is these last few sces you know, when when Stevie and I cast him in our short film about the father teaching the daughter how to ride a bike in which he played the pervert, you'll remember I would have Iouse played the pervert. And he really handled the line, I like the Hiry girl beautifully You know, there was a tenderness to it. You understand the layers of the creep that he is, you know Many ls yeah. Yeah And he's getting better. So would you would you be happy to put the word out out and about in Hollywood that Alex is ready to act Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm sure Kamail's already putting him in a Marvel movie or a big film, you know Well, in fact, I've just added text from Kamail. Kamail's obviously on the set of the white Lotus at the moment Um And a part Ap parts just come up for a pervert So We're going to try and get the word to Alex's agent and and get him out there. A Yp. make sure they know that he does only work nude kill to watch the white Lotus and suddenly out of nowhere the camera pans around and Alex is in the swimming pool just like, hey What's going on there But he can only say I like the hairy girl. That's the only line you can deliver properly. I like the hairy girl, yeah That's hairy girl. Yeah. Something yourself, something. Blank yourself blank. Most blank, necessary blank winds you have blank mines. It can't I mean, it can't be It can't be fing of yourself silly. That would be outrageous P You do whatever you want, Cal Sense to yourself unnecessarily genuine intrigued now. I've sort of forgotten about the game and it's not a game. It's not a game, it's a tas. Most intriguing, unnecessary. censorship wins you have twentywenty minutes. Your time is startarts now Task Master. So things that you're censored for are language, nudity, political views. And this is where her career ended when she was naked shouting hate speech Task two, this is was my favourite of the episode, I think, takeake the most photos featuring at least fifty percent of the task master's assistant. The task master's assistant must stay within the area and will run when you clap, you must wear your blindfold correctly at all times and must not run. You have ten minutes and a maximum of twenty four pictures, your time starts when you have donned your blindfold I agree. This is this is my favorite kind of a task you know, because of it I like the big I love the logic puzzles and all that, but I love the ones that have scale and scope and feel like a Like a game that kids made up You know what I mean? Like that's what's I think really fun about that one is I feel like That's a game. we would come upon like a big square and be like, okay, well, it's blindfold, you know, it felt Like it had that childli wonder to it, which I very much enjoy. and everybody got into, you know Would you have got into this? because what I think about you, Jason, is you're very good at the chaos, but I think you're good when you can control the chaos and you like to have a slight element of control over it. And this I think it would have been hard Yeah, this is chaos that you can't necessarily control because of the blindfold. Would you have brought an added element to it to Well I think it's edge. I think you're absolutely right. I think I probably would have been I think it would have been very fun because I think what the minute I realized Alex like was a noise maker I think I would have been trying to grab him and make noise with him. I think I would have made it about him. And I think Kumail correctly understood and expertly did the task by giving distance because he knows if I am to get a picture of Alex, I need to be farther away and give myself more of an opportunity to catch him in the frame Rather than get close to him. And as you watch, you know, Alex is evading people's photos so easily just by ducking down or taking a step to right or left or whatever. So I don't know, I think I would have gotten so distracted by messing with Alex and his bell suit that I bet I wouldn't have I bet it would have been fun and funny But I bet I would have done if you can believe this, poorly on points. Yeah pererhaps the camera gets dropped or left behind somewhere and then you can't find you actually can't find the camera.. So why didn't do why didn't anybody do this? because this was my thought. My thought was because when it it wasn't my initial thought. was when Joel managed to grab Alex's feet. Alex I think was on the ground or something. Joel was touching him At that point, I would sit on Alex and just drill down straight into him. picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture, picture That's it, game over. I win But how' do you know Are you definitely getting fifty percent when you're trapping him? You probably have to stand up and stand on Alex's chest or st. I love where you're sleeping. You're making it work. Well we're shopping here. Y. Yep. Okay, so maybe yes, we stand, you stand one foot on his chest, one foot on his head and you just shoot straight down boom you know I really of think like You should have been a paparazzi, Jason. You'd be brillant You get so many more pictures than these these guys. That's my you know, that' that's my next life, Ed. Oh God, I hope I come back as a paparazzi Camail was yeah, that tactic of selling far away, really smart. I really enjoyed his tactic of claiming he had a medical emergency So funny. that was very funny I think I also loved that both the moment becausecause the show is so fun and it it's such fun delight to watch people discover So both the moment that both Cumail and Joanna discovered that if they just kept clapping, Alex had to keep running and they didn't even try I think for a long time, Joanna didn't even try to take pictures. I think she was just cackling Like that that's a meme. L her cackling laughing with the googly eyes and it was it was making me laugh so hard. She's just delighting herself and messing with Alex, which I love, of course. sameame with Ce But would you believe? I mean Jan is messing with Alex a lot? sure. She's doing incredibly well in the series. She is also racking up points every and and I will say this and this is one of my favorite kind of Taskmaster archypes is doing incredibly well and making it look easy. She doesn't seem to be breaking a sweat. She's not frustrated by her performances. She's not like what was the one a bunch of episodes ago where they had to do like ten things like thread a needle before a balloon blew up or something like that And she was just chit chatting and doing this and now I'm doing this and she's carrying on a conversation and everybody else was like, You know, And she was just and she got I think all of them or something. outperforms everybody while telling insane stories about her past life, which is hilarious. It's a great attitude You might say it's Gambellian the way she's approaching it.ope I would okay. Okay. I wouldn't even Remotely. If anything, she's dangerously close to a roosie Ramsay This is Ram Ramsinian. This is perhaps Ramsinian, and I'm not talking about Chris. Let be clear Chris, no thanks I only recognize one Ramsay from Taskmaster and it's season nineteen Armando looks pretty lost with this one. he's hold on, hold on you correct me if I'm wrong, you could totally see Joanna telling a story that ended in the same juices. Yeah, sure. Yeah ye. Yeah, yeah, absolutely Absolutely, but I yeah, they've they have they have similar energies, I think for. That's what this that's what this season is missing is breakout catchphrases. We have not had a same juices situation And I know people don't like that phrase. It makes it gives people a little bit of like u but but boy, I think that is maybe pound for pound the funniest thing that's ever been said on the show. And the fact that I don't see people in the UK wearing t shirts to the same juices is a crye It's it's a it's a it's it's a merch opportunity for the show You know how much money Tasmaster could make with same juices t shirts Is this something else Js that you're suggesting to them that they're gonna ignore, Jason? Yes. Fuck yeah, these fucking idiots I think that I would argue that we have had a catchphrase and it's Joel sort of half whispering the word wank Oh's a good one. I't alphabet stairs cast. So I think maybe t shirts just that's pretty W' written really small. It's hard to use as a fan Same juices I think you minute you say That's easy is it? That's easy to say I think if you think, hey, is this person I'm talking to in this bar or that I've just met, is this person a taskmaster fan? If you just say like blank Like I uncomfortable. I think they're going to be like, who's this creep? I think if you say like same juices, right? they're like, Oh yeah. Or if you said like I'm locked in not to choose of one of the ones that I was a part of, but I think these are these are really iconic phrases that are linked to the show Well, people have made their own unlocked in merch, haven't they? There has been a does m their. And we see no money from that. We see no profit from that Armando does look quite lost in this one. This doesn't o no, this doesn't feel like Armando's bag necessarily the taking Photos task. This one, because they were blindfolded and every single surface appeared to be stone, I was like, I'm so nervous that someone's just going get hurt You know what I mean? that someone's going to fall down because there was there was a fountain where they were, like you could very easily have hurt yourself. So like I was nervous Amy, Amy did okay on this one, I think. She got ten photos of more than fifty percent. She was very aware of the bells and letting Alex get close as well, which we know Camalee managed to do a little better. But I just I will watch this lot do anything. I find they're all so different. theirir approach to things is so different Agree, theirir interpretations are always wildly different and confidently so Yeah. You know, it's as if each of them thinks well, there's only one way to do this. This is it Brilliant task. Joel only gets three photos and gets one point. Joanna six photos, two points. Amando ten photos, four points. Amy ten photos, four points, Camillle, twelve photos. fiveive points for his brilliant tactic Sorry to say Amando lost and it was in his bag. four points pretty good before anyone comes for me in the comments U I loved it. this was again, this is the kind of task that I think is I love. And and I have really enjoyed, I don't know what it is, frankly, but the location That they're in this this this year.ourt Palace. Hampton Court Palace. Yeah.unning, you know, It's really cool. That alphabet game was incredible. It just the production value of this location is dynamite. you know? It really is and the t shirt canon task as well. Loved that look. That was amazing. I would have killed for a t shirt cannon task because all I would have done is shoot them all all right at Alex straight into him. Bom. I give me zero points, but you're telling me I can have twenty five t shirts shot at Alex. Done That obviously does not surprise me in any way whatsoever. I think that's probably one of the reasons why you didn't get a t shirt gun task. I bet they ye. they were like they were like, if he's on, no guns of any kind If Jason's on, we can't have a T shirt cananon because Alex is going in the way of Maud Flanderss Can we call time out of something very important to ask you Alex I have a medical emergency Alex, I have a medical emergency talk to me. What is the problem I just realize it's really hot and if I clap, you have to run Task three, do not look away from this task. Put nine nuts and or nails in the nappy. Every time you look away, one minute will be added to your time. You have a maximum of nineteen minutes. Fastest wins, your time starts now This made me feel very odd. This made me feel odd though, Jason. I'll be honest. it look like the inside of a serial killer's lair All of great Yeah. I think it was had seven vibes. Yeah, it really did. I think it was the nappy. I think it was putting nails in a nappy Yeah makes obviously makes me feel very uncomfortable obbviously Big t Cay onfs we weird about the taking a nappy off the baby doll as well. Well when he that I would say that section is so explosively funny where he finds the doll and you see the wheels turning where he's like This can't be the nappy. Do I have to I have to undress a doll and then fit nine nuts in these tiny u you watch him be like, Oh, no, am I gonna and then doing it?' so funny. It was absolutely. And wait, is he the only one that found that doll ' I didn't I don't remember anybody else seeing that doll. So like that's the other thing that I love that there are little land mined in like, I don't know. mayaybe they put the doll in there just to be like, I don't know. Maybe they'll think somebody will think this is the nappy. Wh knows, you know? And fuck manan, that was really killing me. It was making me laugh so hard Yeah, they put in so many different options for this, right? It's a proper tooose your own adventure. There's so many like some of it's in ice. You can take the nails off the baby, which really upset me. You could pick nails off a baby Amy's putting stuff in her boobs to defrost them. Ormando finds a figurine of Jimmy Nail, who I'm not sure is probably's probably not known to you, Jimmy Naille. No. No Jimmy Nale was I love explaining Jimmy now to American. Or indeed anyone like Jimmy now So I didn't even I didn't even clock Jim Oh, this is interesting because I didn't even clock Jimmy Nail as a reference. I thought he made it up No. So Jimmy, which Armando mistakes as Jimmy Nut. think is he called Jimmyes is actually supposed to represent Jimmy Nale. who was in a TV show many years ago in the UK as an actor, but then used that to start a music career and we sort of released sort of Jordy countountry songs and the most famous of which was called Crocodile shhoes So I would I would have a listen have a little listen's crocodile shoes today in Los Angeles Can't wait, Oh, the minute we hang up, I'm going to sit on the porch with my coffee. I'm gonna sit on the toilet with my coffee, my sink smiling at me while I listen to Geordie Country Jimmy Nails. You'll absolutely love it, trust me. No, this is chaos this task is is brilliant. I would have loved it. I think I might have tried what Joanna did, which was look away once for a long time to get a sense of the to layout to get a layout of the land because I think I would have thought and then I've got to go back. So I'll take that whatever that single penalty is and then I will hopefully be able to whatever. But what I couldn't figure out was They were all Nobody was doing this Let me see if I can do it with the microphone Like nobody was holding it up between them and the thing they were having to learn They kept being like And then they look they kept missing. I couldn't figure out why they weren't That and my favorite part of this task is watching Armando do He's this, I think I also would have done He keeps being like, He does look back so much. He keeps what I'm doing for the listeners is raising his head as if the as if the thing he's supposed to be looking at is getting higher and he has to but it's just him. He can' look down. All he has to do is look forward at the thing. So I was like, oh my God, I love this. I love the unconscious things that our bodies do when our minds are trying to make sense of chaos You know, he was killing me I have no idea what his face was up to when he was squatting down as well. When he was squatting down to find something, his face went completely wild. I've never seen him look like that before Truly, was it was really amazing and I'm glad with pushed him the edge because it's been announced today that he's writing new Paddingon film, so that is going to be messed up. I cannot wait Do you think we can get in Well I want to be Paddington You want to be Paddington Yeah. I love it. For no reason, I was the voice of Paddington now Hey Marmlade? I'm looking for Marmlade. What what's going on Is that how you do it? You just he voice, yeah. Hey, Hey, it's me Paddington. What's up? He whereere are we going? We're going on a trip I'm back from Peru. What's up We want to go to the pub I love it. Paddington's got to the pub now. Yeah. Oh yeah, 'cause it's a grown up, Paddington. You know my assumption is he's getting older and older, so he's like, Yeah, you know, I'm back from university I'm working in my dad's shop this summer. It's me, Paddington And he says that a lot. he constantly refers to himself as Paddington, yeah. It's me Paddington. Yeah. Yeah, Hey, fuck you. I'm Paddington Yeah, make it happen. G getet rid of Wishaw, book mananzu. Come on Yeah get Wisha out Mzuus in. And by the way, that goes for everything Wishaw does Yuep, Black Dove season two. I'm in Q Yo you' ke, right? Oh, please let me be cQ in the next Bond. Whever whoever your ridiculous country chooses to play Bond next, let me be cQ U All right, so this is a fucking pen You push this fucking button and a phone comes out of his f ph You can't let them come up with a gadget manad Yeah. No, no, no. I make that's part of my deal. That part of my deal as Q is I write all the gadgets and then they have to use them in the whole thing First one, a pen with a phone that comes. Yeah, this is a fucking watch, bro. But when shit gets crazy, there's two twwix bars in it Yeah. you need them T mini twixes right in there, man I've been convinced. I'm so on board be like He sounds exactly like Paddington. And N noticice exactly This singular voice is taking over all of British culture Yeah, perfect. I mean, I think we'd finished tal about the task to be honest. It was I do briefly want to talk about Joel failing to read nine nuts and saying pine over and over again I really and again, what I really am enjoying about both Joel and Joanna is truly just they are having so much fun. Like Joel is laughing so often during his tasks and truly having so much fun even when failing miserably But like and that's a perfect example. Pine nuts instead of nine nuts, which he must have said nine or ten times, was very funny. very funny. And like watching him, I'm so glad they are keeping his reactions in, watching him start to come undone with laughter is very infectious. Really great What's great about Joel and I've known Joel for, you know over twenty years now is Oh wow. See he's a person that I don't know and I don't know his work, Forgive me really at all. So yeah Yeah, I mean, he's he started doing stand up at he's like my generation of standup. So like I mean, Mish, Joel, James, Josh Whittdakam all of we all started at the same time Joel's always a brilliant comic and still is brilliant comic, but also is like Mr. Saturday night mainstream tey now U he he hosts the UK Mas singer Um so that's his that's his big gig So he is used to insanity basically I see You know Okay, that makes sense. Oh that's really funny. Okay, cool. I like that. And I like his like and again, I love the show because it introduces me to people that I'm like, I'm just utterly charmed by him. I I'm having a blast. And while I've seen in the past episodes of of u Gavin and Stacey, right? I don't really have a frame of reference for Joanna. So these are really I'm meeting them for the first time, which is delightful I think it's very easy for Joel to handle having to put nine nuts in an nappy when like on his day job You know, Kalise is revealing herself as being the big stapler I think it's pretty normal for this is a regular day. Yeah. Oh, big time. Camle gets one point, Amando gets two points. Joanna gets three points, four points for Joel and five points for Amy absolutely smashes it Picks those fingernails off that baby with absolutely Jo Oh a go? Yeah, good. Shall I open this or Yes. Are you going to banter? Now I just want to watch you put your glasses on Do not look away from this task put Nine nuts and or nails in the nappy. Put pine nuts and stroke or nails. Do you want to try to read that one again Put pine nuts and stroke or nails in the nappy. Definitely For pine nuts. That's about more than that Oh I read it so many times. I read it so many times. Live task, wearing your mask correctly at all times. tellell your teammate when to stop with their mop A person whose mop stops closose to their face without touching their face wins the round of the mop bearer must slowly walk at a constant pace and softly squeak at a constant volume Best team after five rounds wins. I I will love to this. sameame. And not only do have I do I love this, I've loved so many of the of this season's live tasks. Yeah they've been I think have in particular been very fun and very silly. I'm thinking about this one. I'm thinking about the one that had all the cans with oranges and lemons and stuff in it. That one was very good. The giant pencil and ball one was very good. Like they've been really uncomplicatedly fun. If that makes sense, you know, like Very easy to grasp, but very hard to execute, which is the perfect live task, I think. This is one that you can imagine playing with other people. Yes I think. I could see if, you know, if you got bored or a party or something, I'm just like, let's play let's play Faceemop Absolutely And you know that people aren't gonna put masks on. They're just gonna like cover their eyes and hit each other in the face with moops. That's There's got to be an epidemic of mop eye in the UK People breaking their noses because they'll be drunk while they're doing it. Faceemop is not a soa game, right? Yeah. Oh, one hundred percent Thank God thisame I didn't know about this game when we were drinking in London a few weeks ago. othertherwise I would have gotten a face full of moop. Do do you think you would be would be good at Faceemop? Is this a game I do Yeah. This is the kind of game I think I would be good at. Yeah. This is the kind of simple, I don't need to think creatively kind of a game that I think I would be good at. But I also think could have hit Stevie in the face with the mo I also think I could have seen myself moving too quickly or being too chaotic and clob you know, accidentally, I would I would have wanted to hit Alex with the mom. Yeah. I could also see myself going out of bounds to try and because you're it's basically jousting. Let's be clear. It's basically jousting except only one person has a has a weapon and the other person just has to take it, I guess I like that even with things that you're not doing and probably won't have a chance to do,ider you're considering how you might ruin and attack Alex. Yes. Oh, first First, first, how do I get how do I that's my hierarchy. firstirst, how do I get Alex? Okay, first, how do I get to Alex? thenen how do I get him? Second, how do I help Stevie? I'm assuming it's a task competition. Third, how do I help myself? And then fourth, how do I get out of here? Yeah Are you still in touch with your taskmates from Sies? We had You had We had lunch. When I was when I was when I was there a couple of weeks ago, we all went for a lunch, a midday, a Sunday a three PM lunch that ended at I believe midnight. U outrageously so, we had an absolute blast. Great to see them all. We were talking so fondly of the show and about each other and about everything that o oh, and we've got to download with Matthew about Champion of Champions, which w of course. You must be proud You must be proud of Matthew for winning Champion of Champions. I am, of course I am I mean, like he humiliated them Every single other champion Get out of here, Andy. get out of here, Sam Campbell. hit the bricks To you you saw Australia with you Campbell Do you see that as maybe proof that had you been in any other series you might have won the series because clearly your series was so much better in terms of your champion I love that you think to ask this question Oh so you hadn't even considered. This is uniquely an Ed gamble question Your question is Your question is, having seen Matthew do so well now do you understand that if you had been in any other season without Matthew who is supreme now that we agree because he won champion of championss, you would have been a winner. Eed, my whole thing only works if I'm losing like, I cannot win. If I'm winning, I'm in trouble The whole bit that my whole bit only works operating from the position of losing. No, but youre I mean, Joanna is chaotic as well and Joanna is, you know, doing incredibly well in the series. So but that's Matthew. Matthew's a Joanna I think. You know what I mean? Like Matthew didn't enjoy winning. He just kept executing at a high level Mat you know Matthew enjoyed winning. Heust enjoy. you know what I mean? You you want to talk to me about Gam Wag that finger if. You want to talk to me about Gam. You're watching the video. lookook at this finger. This is aggressive. That's not my finger, sorry, that was my. Stop it. Stop it. Is that what you call your dick H am my assistant. Yeah. My assistant will get back to you. Yeah, And let me tell you, sometimes he does not assist me Sometimes he's actively workings to be J. Be where he's working is causing problems He sends all sorts of emails. It was a fantastic competition. It's one of my favourite live tasks in a while. I think it's my favourite of the season It was for one to Joanna and Armando. they seem to have a psychic link They are very for a team of two people, neither of whom are like functional. You know what I mean? Like they are both so kind of like, Who knows what they're going to do? bothoth in terms of sometimes they're excellent, but also sometimes just absolutely not. They are surprisingly good together Now that does include that Armando is quite often cheating in that one when he was like when he's supposed to just be grunting and he was like, he's on a horse. I was like, what are we doing now And you can see that angering Cail so much. Oh I love it. Oh yeah. you know and you know who else would have been angry at that? One mr. Ed Gambeble. Yeah, Ed Gambeble and his assistant Oh boy It was for one to Joanna and Armando meaning they get the five points and Amy, Camle and Joel get two points meaneaning Amy wins the episode with nineteen points Joanna and Armando on eighteen points. Camlee on seventeen very close and then Joel at the bottom with thirteen points. Meaning Joanna is in the lead, but Camle is second with one hundred and thirty one points just four points behind Joeanna. who Amy onant Yeah. Joel's in last with one hundred and eleven. He's a fair distance away from Joanna Okay. So he is because I was going to say, I feel like this season They have been closer together There was at least it's ear tour season. For our season, there was a big gulf between Matthew and kind for a while, Matthew and everybody else. and then it got a little bit closer. But this season has been very, I feel like even with with the exception of Joanna, who I think is just crushing a lot U It has been very everybody's doing well throughout. It doesn't feel like anybody is, you know, I guess Joel, but Joel's having so much fun. I guess maybe that's it. He's doing poorly, but he's having so much fun that I think he's doing well, maybe Oh, he he's doing well mentally, I think and and, you know, he's he's having a lovely old time and I would say I think the last couple of episodes, Camal's really jumped up points wise. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I went to see episode six being filmed and They came and said hello beforehand everyveryone came say just hanging around the green room And Kamail was like just the The women are wiping the floor with us basically The women are absolutely just taking us apart, but no fun It's so brilliant. it's such a brilliant season. Jason, you've been amazing, as always, Thankk you so much., We can't wrap. I can'trap Oh sorry more notes. I've got a curtain in front of me. I need to see behind the curtain. Okay, well, I've got a couple of things because I have other notes on other episodes that I didn't get to talk. This is great. It's rare that guests have gottenes I love just as we had. I love when Joanna smashed the sheep That really I felt seen by that. And I was like, how come there weren't ceramic sheep when I was there or whatever they h they probably hit them. They' probably in the storage, Jason. Well, I for whatever the this theme seems to be farm based or some shit. I don't know. I was like they probably got these new. I was like, that looks great. I wish I wish they'd done that Joanna's story about the toilet plunger was next level. I mean, that was unbelievable. E though and I'm going to ask you this, even though I narrated it I still don't understand or know what C conquers is Yes. coconut conquers I will ask you about that because I meant to bring that up earlier. You of course, your voice was featured as the commentator for Cokonkers. Yeah. D did you receive picture to mentate to. I did. I did. So I received that. task I don't know T months ago. Yeah. I was in Vancouver shooting the TV show, Percy Jackson I filled my closet full of pillows and blankets. I asked production for a microphone. and I sat in the closet and I watched that thing And they gave me nothing but just the video and said, willill you just do sports commentary on top of it? And I was like, I had to write back and be like, what the fuck is this? What am I How do I even do sports commentary for something I have no frame of reference for? So have do you not even have a frame of reference for conkers Zero. That's a zero over here. I've never heard of it So so that it was coconut conquers, I was like, that's not helping me. You know what I mean? You know now No because I do not So when there are like horse chestnuts on the oak trees, you'll you'll pluck them off and you break them open and the thing the horse chestnuts are conquers you then what kids do then is put holes in them, put string through them and then you play a game where you try and smash the other person's Conquer there's a there's a big tradition of trying toreat cheat by by going home from school and like fixing your conquer in a certain way. And people used to think dipping it and vinegar worked, filling it with polyfiller All of that sort of stuff. So this is the kind of robot Wars this is why robot ion of that initially, I think, yeah. Yeah Okay because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Okay, makes sense. That's interesting. I get it. But because I really was like I watched it a bunch of times through and was so perplexed and confused u wild stuff can I ask in Percy Jackson, is Edge still in it Yeah Adam, Adam Copeland Absolutely. Edge. He still please I go with Edge still Oh yeah, my dear dear friend Adam Copeland, who is the greatest, so funny U yeah, he's still in there as Aerres, the God of war. Fantastic. I love the guy And please, please post that wonderful I'll tell him you said hello Please don't al like, Oh, Ed, Ed says hello. I'm sure he'd be like, Who, Ed? Yeah, absolutely. Tom I said hi Gret, please pass that on if he does say that, I'd love that. one hundred percent. And I'm now going to pull the final curtain back just because I enjoy it. So as people know or as you know, people don't know, you know, for my final two recordings of seeason nineteen, I had absolutely terrible food poisoning. I was diarrhee and vomiting constantly all day long, shooting the final two episodes. There was a period of time where they were worried I might not be able to even do the show that day. So there was a backup provided. There was a breaking case of emergency cast member on site Dressed and ready to go personers MSi. I mean, they mag many people know That's this is great behind the curtain, but surely You get a Kuma and you dress him like you. sureurely. I mean, I mean, I don't know why they didn't, but Buta Emma was there ready to go. And I almost felt bad that she didn't get to. But I was too busy shitting and vomiting My we have higher body weight We of course had that on O season, Katie Wicks couldn't do yes a few episodes and was replaced by Catherine Ryan and Care Godliman on the two episodes that she couldn't do former former winners themselves. And then the next two episodes They were worried that she wouldn't be able to do those. so Paul Chaowdry was there just in case and she was able to do them So Paul Chaowd was just waiting around at the top of the stairs every time we finished It's just hanging around. Yeah. what a guy What a guy he is. G much for that final curtain pull back Jason. You know what? I'm having a great time hanging with you, buddy. I was sad to miss you a couple of weeks ago. But yes, that was sad. But next time A you coming over soon? again? another little? I don't think until the fall. I don't think now until the fall. Autumn Get fuged Ill let you have season, man. You're not going to mess up these seasons. Jason, thank you so much for coming in on the Task Master podcast. We always ask our guests to rate their experience on the Task Master podcast between one and five points. This is your chance to give out scores. We hope you've enjoyed yourself. So please give us a point score points all day every day. It's this is one of my favorites. Absolutely. what I mean, for me, it it's the morning. So what a great way to start the day chatting with my very best friend about our very favorite TV show Fantastic What's great about you you started a new podcast today? Yeah, we did and I can't wait to crack on with it. It's going to be amazing. What I like about you very much, Jason is sometimes I ask you a question and I'm not sure which way you're going to choose to go with it Oh yeah whether it's going to be sincere Jason that I know and love or whether it's Agry Jason who takes my personality apart, which I also know and love. And I'm glad we ended on a sincere note. Ke them guessing. keep them guessing. Thank you very much, Jason Thank you, Ed Thank you so much to Jason for coming on the pod fantastic podcast guest. I mean, historically on many podcasts. he's a fantastic podcast guest great podcast host, but on this podcast in particular Amazing Funny loves the show, wants to discuss the show in detail, We really talked about the show this week Really funny episode last week with John Kearns, but we didn't really talk about the show. I know that annoyed some people, some people loved it. So look, we've got something for everyone this series. That one we talked about the show Very funny too. We'll be back next week to talk about episode nine with another brilliant guest, but for now, goodbye