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I didn't recognise that whatsoever, but hopefully the viewers will know that we're here. It's Task Master the People's podcast and what is it, Jack? What is today's recording? Grand for are very exciting. It's very exciting. It's happened. We got to. It has. And I tell you what happened as well. Armundo, for the first time in this series fult marks for sarorial dress. Oh, well we should, I mean we can there are lots of things to discuss even before the whole beforefore Greg says a single word, there are lots of things to discuss because God everyone looks great at the start of this episode. Yeah. I like so I don't they they they say later on, oh, we've all come dressed as a nineties film, which was a lot of fun, but I don't or like a wedding like four weddings weddings kind of. But I think what's happened here and I love it when this happens is everyone's dressed up fancy And just by accident creates a theme. It's not like in series twenty when we had all dressed up as pirates. It's not like in series fifteen, when you're all dressed up like the Beatles. It is Nobody's had to go to a highire shop. Yes, it's just do something fancy. Put something fancy on. And Armando is dressed up as in a gorgeous kilt Oh Yeah what Re. If you're allowed to wear a kilt, why would you wear anything else? I will say this is some people try to say that they can wear kilts and they can't wear kilts. They're like, Ohh, you know, I'm vaguely from that area. I think you have to be. I think you have to be Scottish. Yeah, you have to be Scottish and you have to go the whole hilt Yeah the kilt. Absolutely. Go the whole helilm with a kilt. I just sort of thought and now there he looks absolutely splendid. He does. They all look splendid and Joel can carry a white tie. He can, I was I mean, Joel looked terrific and does you know, it was his wedding day next next to Johanna who had dressed in a sort of I really li Joanna's dress as well. I thought it was it was pretty it was pretty off white off wh satin number and it did look Like it's the kind of thing that you could mistakenly buy for your friend's wedding and turn up as a guest and everyone would tut behind your back. Yeah. And you be like mean. I didn't mean suit and then you'd sort of wish that you dyed it pink. Yeah It's only in the context of the wedding that I've now realized that it looks because it could be like a cool wedding dress is how I feel, yeah. Yeah, it could easily have been a bridal frock Yeah So nowadays young gal. Nowadays young gal. Yeah.. Kamille was dressing in sort of you know like a very smart sort of, you know, no tie, but it was a nice suit. Gster. Gangster. Yeah a little slippery gangster. It really felt like everyone was bringing a different like smart energy to this wedding, which and of course Amy was the assle brother doing Cokeon and the tooilet. Brilliant. love it. Toilets but all the stripes pin striped to h to the chin Mars. She looks terrific good Y. they all brushed up very nicely indeed. The other fun thing to notice is if you go back and watch this episode again because I feel like this is worth seeing, the opening credits in honor of because obviously Joel doesn't gain any extra points spoiler alert for his egg trauma throughout the whole series, but they do a little nice little nod to him. They add in extra egg moments in the opening credits. I don't know if you noticed, but you can hear didn If you were if you're watching the episode again, go back and look at the opening credits because they changed the opening credits to have I don't think it's every time Joel's on screen, but like a lot of Joel's moments They replac with the and him like desperately getting out an egg, which is lovely. It's a lovely little a lovely little gag and a lovely He deserves some kind of. He definitely did. I think they could have just lobbed another you know, five points. Well, you say that, that would have I thought originally Ohh, it doesn't matter, he's not gonna to win He does very well in this episode. actually if they they'd lobbed him another fifteen points, he would have won. So ye there would never been a lob in fifteen. that would be a mad lob. It would be a mad So but yes, it was a good fun finisher, I reckon and we are going to sort of start from the top and go all the way to the end. So this is a series twenty one episode ten, Domestic Bum fluff. and this was a phrase coined by Armando desescribe Lint later. Yeah when he was he was really struggling. And people did struggle to describe Lint in this episode, but he was really struggling. so I'm glad He pulled it out the bag at the end with a good description. Yeah yeah, lovely stuff The prize task kicked off with the object that is most likely to make you say, Oh yeah, that's quality when you see it. I very much liked Greg's alter ego of Dave. Yeah, Dave was fun. I did enjoy. And I liked how everyone leant into it, which I thought was quite sweet. And I think Joel was the most enamoured with with Dave. Yeah. I thought this was a really good mix of stuff that everybody brought in. Joel brought in a rap song that he wrote and recorded called Limelight when he genuinely thought he was going to be a rapper. Oh my go. so sweet. So sweet, so lovely. And did make me think that like the most embarrassing possession. Do you remember there was a task earlier that was the most embarrassing possession? Yeah I this would should have been brought in for that because oh my God, this this made me. it was great and it was so lovely, but also like just the way the way at the end of the song, it just has a big pause and then he just goes fe I was like, Oh God, Oh no. A my inses. Well wasas that the moment where Greg said my testicles for the first time the series have disappeared inside my body? Yeah Yeah.. And had the testicles, mine would have done the same. And I agree, I think really. It was My vagina slightly turned inside out. Lovely. gllad in Yeah Yes, like an old sock lint to be quite honest with you. If I'd had to collect lint, I'd now where to go. Anyway, moving on, that was a classic, Joel. It was really nice. I really like the way he lays himself bare here. Yes, and he's done that a few times this series. He's done it with the diary, He did it with the old picture of himself Like he he's he for someone who is very who has like a sort of a polished version of himself and and a sort of, you know, like living in the present attitude and I said this before. I do I do like the fact he's able to go back and look at his alter ego where he wasn't quite so like comfortable with himself. And I I enjoyed that. And I think actually, I mean, I I'm really I'm really enamored by Joel I think he's terrific. I thinkm yeah, I thought this was wonderful. Well this was great. and I thought he had a great episode. I think he's done very, very well in this series. I'm very happy for him. Yes. And I also think he will be giving a lot of hope to a lot of teenage boys who go, oh, so I could turn into that. Yes. I definitely. So I yeah, I agree. I feel like there are a you kind of's a he's a very good role model in the sense where like he was he's quite he seems to have been quite an embarrassing teenager. Yeah in a way that I Yeahah, he's walking cringe. It's a walking cringe. but the fact that he can then like Because I think he still hes still retained that it's not as if he's like completely changed who he is. He's still retained a lot of that cringe, but he's turned it in a very fun way styling out his cringe. Yeah. and and I think, you know, quite a few things happen in this episode and across all series. I think you could argue that Joel has, you know, he's done a lot of puns, a lot of them are terri. but they are authentically him. And I think that's the thing that's very sweet about and yeah, I I think that's very true. I think he's a good role model. I'm not gonna to say it. King of styling out your cringe. So he did that. Amy brouought in some quality hornsy pottery where she went to school. Now I But it was I think there' a good effort. I think stop laughing. and I don't think he understands the nature of classic hornsy pottery. And what a sort of backbone it is to British teaware. Now coffeewar. The thing is though, and so I agree and I think it's sort of, you know it's an equivalent of like Denbi, I would say, like proper things where if you're from the area Yeah orr like in Ireland there's Bleak. Like things like where you you just say like, oh it's you know, it's really good like it's really good crockery.s It's hard to get excited about that. but actually if you're from the area, you're like, this is really good. And it's like and there is a weird local pride to it So I understand completely understand where Am was com from. I also completely understand where Camal's coming from because as an outsider, it is weird to be like do work up? because but but that that is the nature of it. And I think that and also I will say is that I think oh yeah, that is quality is legitimately a very good response to hornsy pottery or like like that kind of bl kind It's very collectable. It's very collectible. and it is good quality. so it is hard to sol. Yeah. ye. but Greg was also in his Dave alter ego so he just called it toilet. The toilet I think I think honestly, if Gregor thought about this more, he would have remembered that like I feel like Dave has an appreciation of good hornsy. He's very like he loves a good mug, I reckon Dave, not putting too many words in Dave's mouth here. He loves a good mug and I feel like he knows he an Ikea mug and a hornsy mug and I think he would be aware that a m I'm not sure he does. I think you're giving Dave too much credit. I think you're not giving Dave enough credit I think Dave is acome coard. Wereg to do an entire tour. As D Dave. Yeah, toilet Yeah we just Donles everything toilet. It was a shame Yeah. but she didn't defend it as well as you defended her Tom Jones album. I will say that Amy fell down here. I mean, she was sort of undermined by Camle, but she Her response to Kamalee was it could have been like, I know what you're thinking Kamaille, it's just a cu but let me tell you, it's like the birthp, but instead it was more just that she she just resorted to. which makes it much more pathetic. I didn't really enjoy it, but yeah. Yeah. Janna brought in her Tom Jones does's Country and Western record and Dave's verdict was fair playair play He's a Welsh stallion. I mean, you know, I think ye I think it was interesting they were right again in that sense where it's like Joann has gone sexual and, you know and and that is interesting in this decision to sort of you know, oh yeah, that is quality doesn't necessarily make you think that, but equally like it's a it's a quality picture And I can imagine that it's you do look at that go and also like When Joanna says, Oh yeah, that's quality. you know what she means by that? And I think that ye I think that's fair. I mean, and it's just all credits to Tom Jones as well, who genuinely in that moment when that photo was taken, I think thought he was a cowboy Yeah. Oh definitely. I think there's I think there's a u there's also a weird thing. I feel like in the seventies and that kind of era where you kind of embody I don't know. I feel like yeah, that there's a there's a I feel like if someone did that now you'd be like, oh, he's pretending to be a cowboy, that's a bit naf. whereereas I think there's a there's a sort of believabities to Tom Jones and a believability to like in that era where you're like, you are that person. you are my fully. I mean, why wouldn't Tom Jones go horse riding in Estetson? And also quite a lot of cowboy stuff around at the time. Yeah, but that's what I'm I think that's what I mean in the sense where you're like It shouldn't work because he is a man from Wales who is in a stepson and you're like, this shouldn't work at all. but he comolds it on. So ye, but it's Tom Jones can do what he likes. You that little what's of face, the pop star everyone likes, the girl who's only got one name Madonna. Sabrata No, no, on the same age as Sabrina Carpenter, the biggest pop star at the moment. Chappple Roan There no gu' gone to eseric.'s you know, she's marrying the footballer. Tery Swift? Yes. she hasn't got one name. She's got two names. T Swift I put you off the scent there. She did She went all cowboy, didn't she? Yeah, we can actually also went all cowboy Yeah. And actually Yeah they can fucking do it. They're Tom Jones I feel like I feel like Beyoncea has a bit more of acc claim towards Cowboy than Tom Jones does I that's that's what I'm going yeah, that's what I'm going to say. And also yeah, Tiswift did Stark Cowboy as well, as Christine' pointed out, ye. Okay. but well done Tom Jones I loved Armando's contribution this week. I loved it so much. Armando's was so good that it also like it took Greg out of his character I feel like like he he legitimately dropped all pretense of being like, oh, yeah, this is this is great. He was like literally, I want that. I want that and I must. And my God, he knew ex he knew exactly exactly what would appeal to Greg. I mean, Greg so Greg famously has in previous series like he's he's gone off on laminators like being like, o, you know, laminators are the best itemist stationary. He really liked Chris Ramseay's lawn mower that was like an automatic lawn mower. So Greg is this is like prime Greg material, I would say. Good gadget. G gadget. And this is also it's one of those classic gadgets where you're like, I didn't know I needed this, but I did this. So I mean I think a lot of people watching this will instantly go on the internet and try and find themselves a tape dispenser with bells on. Oh my go. well it's just also the sound of it. J're like you like Yeah. there it is really attractive. Absolutely. Okay, then, and then Pill came in with a pun. Oh, that's risky. If I Jll in that moment and Camillle had got anything above a two, I think I would have kicked off. I think I would have been absolutely furious because all series long, Greg has been saying he hates puns and he's not going to give any puns. And then Camillle comes in with Terrible pun. A terrible pun. Let's be honest right now. A quality It works, it kind of works in American. It think does work better in American thanity. Equality. Yeah. quality quality. Yeah, ye. I mean, you know, he couldn't get no points. He beat Amy, which I thought was a little mean. I know I was a little mean as well. poor hornsy, but he had the thing is G Dave had already called it toilet so he had an out. Yeah and and I re to go that. And also I will say that the the the theatre of Camille taking off his shirt to reveal the shirt underneath I think probably gave him a few more points as well, I would say. You have to remember my vagina is made of lint Oh, no, no, I'm not You must remember that at all times. I like when we get the episode title in, like very early on. It's my next tour. I'm just writing it down. I might sry You can see that. I think it needs that you have to remember though, like like come on. we've all this is not new information. You have to remember my vagina is made of lint. was more it was more not necessarily that I was thinking, oh boy, I get to see Camaail's you know chestso It was more that whereere's he going with this? What on earth is happening? Yeah. I think whenever people do that, a little bit like A moment of panic a moment of panic? Yes. What's he doing? Yeah what's happened here? Whereas like like Stevie Martin with the fake arm I think is a similar thing remember in the final episode, she had a fake almment and she and that was that like that where you're like, o, like a little bit of there. L that. loveove bit there. Yeah. So the points were awarded thus, Amy one point for her hornsy pottery. I hope she sells it on eBay for a fortune C mail two points for his quality. Joel three points for his tape Joanna four points for Tom Jones as a cowboy and Amando the four five points for his Fabulous tape dispenser. Oh beautiful. Beautiful. Yeah Beautiful we come now to our lint moment. Y. fill this egg cup with lint. this is task one. You have ten minutes and the egg cup must stay in the lab. Also, you must stop the clock at exactly ten seconds at some point during the second half of your attempt Owise you are disqualified, most lint wins Yes. so at the start of this, Alex says, oh, it's the return of the egg cup U And I and everyone there were as as Greg said, twelve people cheered. Hoay. And I was one of those people because we've had the Egg Cup has appeared in a few other tasks Yeah early early on in the first series there was Phllis Egg Cup with teears and in series three there was sweat Yes, it was sweat. So Pyllis Egg Cup with I think it was your sweat, which I think is where the u which is a lot of contestants then, yes, sweated into a jar, but also Sarah Pasco bought sweat off other members of the cast, sorry of the crew, the crew. And Al Murray famously tried to argue that You you then sweat and peed into a saucepan and then poured that in. It was disgusting. He got dis squalified. Ho right. I believe this is the first time we've had the egg cup since then. I don't think there have been any other egg cup. I mean, there have been tasks involving egg cups. I think the that eats this egg Fastest Wins was in the that same egg cup. The red and white egg cup, but we haven't had a filly egg cup task since then. So hoay, obviously in series one and three there was something you could do to make yourself produce tears and sweat. You can run or you can cry. Here there' a bit of a there's a little bit of a thing where you're like, well, how am I going to make lint? You can't I mean, you could, but I suppose could you create lint? No really fabric you need a shredable fabric like a linen, a loose linen shirt or something, you could cut a square and sort of fray it fray it. which is effectively what what Amy did, didn't she with her sock? Yeah herer gummy sock. Yeah really, really r rubby sock. It was it was quite and she must have thought shit those sock on It is a rubby old It looked like a boyfriend's tennis sock, but anyway, it was not the kind of sock you want to see Amy wearing. I feel like you Amy if Amy had more if she was a bit more like a Rod Gilbert character O maybe even a Judy loveve. She would have said to Alex, give me your sock. I'm going to shred it. Or Rosie Ramseay also did that. She like took Alex's suits and poured water over them, which I think so that that the way she wouldn't have, but she's not that kind of person. She will sacrifice her own sock. Amy iss DIY. Yeah yourself. She yourself and like is not afraid of showing off her sock on TV and destroying it really. Yeah, I suppose what I mean is is could you could you wear a shirt and then rub Beause I feel like there was an element to this where I was like, everyone did a great job and everyone did their own version of lint. I would argue proper lint needs to belly button. That's my own personal argument. It's impossible to fill an egg cup with unless you are a complete pig, you cannot fill a belly button. My time children, baby Well obviously I could empty the contents of my vagina, but that's beside the point. No. Hey there's another show title right there. I think the person who did this best was Joel. Yes. Joel And I think Jo Joel also Joel got into the spirit of it in a way, because I think also saying lint rather than dust. I think other people would have gone for the vacuum if they'd said dust, but like I think he worked out that actually dust and lint sort of interchangeable. Yeah and that means you can go straight into these one of those confusing things. I mean, Armando got I mean, his brain crashed into a wall over this one Yeah. I mean it sm it It's one of those words. If you say it too many times, it just makes no sense, Lint, Lint. And you just think of those chocolate bunnies, don't you? Yes. ye. And I think I would have maybe I would have gone down that route and then found myself like In that world and you're like it's not particularly satisfying to put a chocolate bunny in or like to go out and get that. And yeah, it's a brand name. There's a whole thing that doesn't work about. It goes wrong, doesn't it? Yeah. So yeah, I mean you can get lint of a shirt, but it had to be a flannel shirt. it would have to would you just have to rub it into your belly button and then pull it out? No you can't Jack, you've really confused this.'t down and now o room there. you have to get away from your belly button. I'm really sorry. I think you do, but I think I would have You would have attempted I would have attempted. then I would have been furious in the studio if I saw a Joel and everyone else do it really, becausecause I'd be like, that's not the belly button. And then Alex would have said there's nothing to do with the belly button in this and I would be having a breakdown. As I said, I spent hours trying to all like minutes like jamming shirt into my belly button and then pulling out again. That's just horrible. I can see it very clearly in my head how badly this would go. There must have been times in your childhood where your parents sat down together and had a chat about you while you were saing attack tucked up in bed. There must have been times when they said, We have got to talk about Jack We've got to talk about Janna does go down the belly button route. She asks if she could look in Alex's belly button this is what I mean. I feel like you could potentially go r each car like each crew member And then and I think if she had done that obviously she would have scored zero points if she remembers like Cando that there is Lint. there was Lint somewhere in the show previously that was lovely. I love that that little detail that they found. but yeah I thinkm sorry, Joanna trying to avoid or trying to at first trying to do the belly buttons of the cast of the crew members, I thought was a Sart move, but I'm glad she abandoned it. I Yeah. I think I think your own belly button fluff is quite a private thing. and I'm not sure whether that many people would want to reveal the contents of their belly button. Did you know that there are like apparently there are Millions of different kinds of I' going to get this wrong and someone's going to call in Oh well about the when they did like they've done research into people's belly buttons and there are like new kinds of bacteria that form in people's belly buttons because it's such a like a ground reeding ground. not like scary bacteria, like like just interesting new kinds of bacteria where they say that haveve never been discovered before in every single person's belly button, there are new types of bacteria Like fungus like that which are never endingly fascinating. Mushrooms and fungi have just like they are I think they are probably the solution to everything. I I lost faith in that sentence halfway through, but you lost faith then made it the belieelief in mushrooms fungi. I think you should have belief in fungus and mushrooms. The idea that a solution to everything is interesting. Yeah I think I. I mean, it might be.be maybe I'll solve everything I think go Yeah, I think there's the answer to a lot of the world ills It might be o Godd, let's get back to this show. Anyway, this is Armando did remember the lint as well, but he got very confused Lint mint. But he both I do think, I mean, you know, both Joanna and Armando got confused by numbers and words in this dial But they also pulled it back by getting it right in the end, which I think I think that deserves some credit because I think other lesser contestants would have would have just gone what is Mint and then had a breakdown? And other contestants would have been so mortified by the fact that they didn't understand how works for a couple of seconds that that would have also thrown them. So Like I'm glad that they were able to pull it back is what I mean. Yeah. Okay, okay. Amy went into site meltdown started literally pulling out her hair. That was That was a concerning moment. I there' have been a few discerning moments this series. I would say this and the worms in Joanna's hands and the screaming. Like things where contestants stop pulling out their own hair for a task and' like, o, okay, we need to have an intervention here Yeah And suddenly' come in and have a little chat. Oh Now what did Camle do J? Now Camle That's not lint in my mind. It's not lint in my mind and I also think There are some things in the show that are sacred and I feel like you can't start taking, you can't start taking scissors to Patatas. You can't like like that's like a relic. I feel like that's, you know, thats that'soy. I think you could pretend to shave Patatas in preparation for an operation. Right. Okay, so long as long as having wrong patas and to prepare for the operation, he had to be shaved And you know the shavings. I just shaved him rather than cut. Yeah. So it was it was quite a confused one, but everyone got there in the end. Hy only got one point. She's having a tough time. Camil two points. So Amy hadn't scored one point in a task in a film task until last week and now she's got another one point here and she doesn't have a she does not have a great episode this week and it contributes for her finishing quite low in the table, poor, Amy. Camille has a bad one as well, I would say, notot greatace. Yeah, ye. But there we go. It's you know, it all evens out in the ends and it won't do anybody any harm. 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Everything goes wrong Which is very satisfying. But like yeah, a great task. And I think everyone, what's also great is everyone kind of did a slightly different thing with it. S people had luck and some people had no luck. Oh absolutely. I would argue Armando had a huge amount of luck, a massive amount of fortune in his one in the sense that so he I mean we should maybe start with Amando because it was the one they sort of started with in the thing. It was was he created a whole narrative that he was going to a recorder recorder convention where there are two rules. you've got to bring your own recorder and you absolutely cannot have any paint you Obviously I mean, that's the standard rule at all recording conventions record conventions recorder conventions Don't turn up splattered in paint. You're not allowed You won't be allowed in the amount of people you see arguing with bouncers at recorder conventions when they're covered in paint Absolutely. It's huge. But he so he he tricycles to the recorder convention. L of tricycle Yeah.. I mean, a lot of people used to tricycle And now it's tried to drop the balloon on his head but he battered it away. He bats it away but unsuccessfully, I would say, in the sense that he's trying to like get it away, but instead it somehow falls into him as he's doing the recording, which is actually quite impressive. He's batting away while recordering, which again, very impressive. It falls onto him then Down his body and onto the floor where it splatters and gets a little bit on his ankle on his ankle yeah Yeah. And then he tries to argue that the hedgehog was the one he was trying to avoid which they did enjoy. I think, but he's very fortunate because if you look at and they show it in slow motion, the balloon is like really distorted when it glands on him I really expect it to just go all over him, but he gets away with it. And I think the Greg gives him an extra point really for the narrative as well. So yeah, that's it's good. It's good. It's all good Jann's was the sort of the first successful one in the sequence. Yeah, I would argue the out of the five, it's the second most successful, I would say. Yeah. I mean, it shouldn't work. Yeah, it shouldn't have worked. I'm again not entirely sure how she did it. It's I think luck. I think sometimes she's just really lucky. I think she is quite ret pretty fortunate in this series, I will say. We we'll look back and during the big stats the stats debate which will do the bigig stats download, whatever we're calling it next week. That's the week I call my No homeomework week. No no homework week, a big no home week We'll talk about there are quite a few lucky moments for Joanna where she where she's got away with it a bit. and I wonder if, you know, things have been slightly different. mayaybe we would have had a different champion, but that's by the by. This is another example where she's able to c no spoilers, Jack I think you might have just done what they call a spoiler. Oh no, no, feel I feel like people most people I think everyone does. Yes, absolutely. We're heading to that conclusion. But I think yeah, Aoanna's very lucky. Amy, on the other hand Oh my God. It was a brave attempt. It was so brave and she really genuinely thought she would be able to bat a balloon filled with paint away from her with a frying pan I'm not sure I've loved this series. I've laughed a lot. I think this might be where I've laughed the hardest this whole series. That moment where it just where it just explodes over Yeah she justort everyone just freezes because they're like, what's happened here? It is so funny. And the way that she kind of goes, Oh, that was close makes me laugh. Be I see it's weird because again, it's a little bit sometimes the show plays weird tricks on you where you're like like the way that Moan is one where he's so confident that if he puts Helium into an egg, you think You know, maybe Maybe an egg will float up. I'm sure. It's a little bit like that with this where I'm like, maybe Maybe that is possible. Maybe it isn I genuinely thought she could get away with it. I don't. I just wondered whether the frying pan was too hard and maybe if she'd had something softer like a badminton wp. Oh, that's interesting. That's a good question. That would allow a little bit of. Yeah. That's not a bad thought then The problem is that well, I mean, you know, the problem was that it didn't work at all, but maybe a badment racket that she's afraid it would have like like I guess the advantage you have with a balloon going against the frying pan is that's one hit, whereereas a Badmmentter racket has like those little so could have potentially have gone through the net is the only thing I'm thinking about. I don't know, Jack. I think actually we need a experiment. We do. We need a few people some enthusiasts to line up with paint filled balloons and try different objects and see if batting away. I mean, in some respects, Armando batted his away. That's what I mean. Armando gets away with it and his's actually I think you're right,'s slight it's a sieve I think he uses or some kind of like not a frying pan, not a thing to So he gets away with it because it does like sort of like it makes you realize that these balloons are actually relatively Flexible Flexible. Yeahah malleable. So similarly like Joanna is like holding ono the the balloon by the end. it's kind of really distorted in her hands. Again, there's no reason why not no reason, but like it easily could have popped there. So don't I don't think I understand how balloons work. That's my problem. because I agree. I sort of thought maybe this will work, and then obviously where it does It was very cartoony which is very satisfying I loved it. Oh Godd, it was so funny. Camarel did, you know, went full on action here in Latrix is time. C M Cel's moving swings on a pendulum king and diving. I loved Kamales also because in in the recording, like in the moment, he kind of seems to he seems to not want to acknowledge that it hits his venus G goes, alwaysways hit the middle of my body. Yeah Yeah. But then Grag just says, Yeah, you got hit in the dick. It just so great. It's great. It's great a childish word. When do you just c things like Here's's have a career You've got hit in the dict nebor. I L it's funny enough seeing like the Cames used the green screen a few times this series. He had the green screen where he like where it was the the caravan where he was doing the car chase and he was moving things across. so it looked like the caravan was speeding along. And here obviously to do the bullet time, the proper like leaning back thing he he has someone holding him in green screen, which is lovely. It's great to see. But it doesn't make it much funnier when the balloon crashes into his b, just way he's being held by a man in extreme green. green things Everyone looks at like, o, okay, that's the end of that That's the reveal. Yeah We think it might be a really good metaphor for Camle's time on this show where you're like, o he's so cool. Oh he's so fantastic. He's amazing. Oh he's been hitting the day A Balloon. I think it's a very proud moment. I love I love it. And Joel Joel did something really rather beautiful. and she been great said I mean, it' so good. I really liked him in the studio saying I was getting worried because everyone else had a narrative. And at the end him saying fuck narrativearr narrative is fucking. Which again, that's I feel like' the ty Joel. It's so Joel, It's also the type of thing that you can get away with in episode ten because you're right at the end. And like I think like if they come earlier in the season, it may have been like like a ' the idea of like the master storyteller Armando versus like Joel is being able to like always be a punchline being like a Yeah because's stupid, fuck you. is like something that you could do here because we're coming to the becausecause we know Joel and we know Exactly that the whole thing is vibe is so friendly and sportive and it's yeah. And it just I mean, it was I don't knowite what he was aiming at. It was he puts goggles on stands the Alex, who's ready to drop the paint balloon on his head and then he dives backwards in the last minute into a bathtub of red water. I mean, it's very satisfying to see two splats happening at the same time. So I think visually it looks wonderful. L it's such a great thing. And I think that' what that's what's doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, but also the idea that like it worked quite well in that sense because it was like, oh he's the balloon has only just missed him by dodging he is splattered himself worse than he would have been splattered by the balloon. So there's a nice level of irony there on top of it. yeah, I loved it a lot was great. So it was a good task and everybody did very well. Camelle two points, Amy two points So nobody with one point here. No one point visually visually even if you failed, it so good. It looked great failing. Amando four points and Joel five points So what is task three Je? Task three, the final film task of the series. and it's a team task, hay? Terrifying, really though. You know, if you're doing really well in this and you sort of think, oh shit my teammates's gonna let me down. Yes,ose I suppose things I mean it's worth saying that I think at this point If you were playing if you know, if anyone in this series cared about scores apart from Camal Yeah, I think I think even he's given up now. He's given up. Yeah. I think he's become a task masered. He doesn't really give a shit anymore. He doesn't give us a shit. I think that the thing that if everyone did care, I think this would have been a relatively tense moment. Joanna was leading a one fifty nine Armando one one fif four Mle on one hundred fifty one, Amy on one hundred forty seven and Joel on one hundred and forty. So I actually think that the issue with this a little bit is that going into this final film task, the person who's closest to Joanna is Amando, but Amando's on her team. So she so they can't actually he can't gain points on her in this task the only way that Kamal win really is if There was a big turnaround in the next few tasks. basasically. there are eight points between Camail and Joanna at this stage. So he needs the team of two to fail badly and he needs to do very well in the live task. So I suppose that that's the only level of tension. If Armando cared deeply about beating Joanna, then at this point he would know he was screwed basically because by the knowledge that it's a team task he would know that it's almost impossible for him to do anything. Camal has a chance because he because the team tasks could go in his favor But yeah, I mean, it doesn't really matter because also it's just a great fun final task, which is I loved what the team of three did I mean, I I thought everyone did a lovely job. I thought it was I love the team of three and I think the team of three deserves I think if it were me, I like it when everyone gets the same number They were a five pointer and team of two were a four pointer. Yeah That's what you know because I'm a bit cruel because No I think it's fair because I think there's a simplicity to the team of the team of three. The team of four des sorry team of four Team of two deserved, I think credit because there was a nice narrative and there were some great lines throughout this like There were no lines in the team of three because they were it was a wonderful Western. It was so well done and it was just like It was so it was so horrible. It was so like ghastly to watch as well, which I think really made it very fun. But they were all really good. They were really they really pulled it off. It was those great faces, great mouaches. Yeah. I' have put Amy in a moustache as well. She wasn't in a mouache. Yeah. I' have done a great viva Sata red mouache on a. Although I did I did like the thing which was her being like because shes sort of the, you know, like she looks like the barmaid who isn't really sort of involved in. I did like the fact that and I wonder if the mouache would have thrown that off because it would they would have had a discussion about it would Yeah, it's a bit first thought. I take it back. No, no, no, it's not first thought. It's a great thought, but I did anyyway, what did her Aondon do? They went down the children's TV routet. Well, I feel like it was more it was more like labyrinth and that might just be because Joanna was wearing a sort of like a red wig. What was the line that they had? There was u There was a specific line that I can't rem what it was now. Oh cacking that was it. They that Armando called her the cackling Moss Lady from across the valley, which is a great line. This is the thing is I feel like I feel like the team of three, Nita, I will say, Neta visually more because that wasn an element. it was a little bit kids TV. It was a little bit like Oh, we're just we're just messing around're having fun. and it's all it all fell a bit loose. But at the same time, you know, there are so many great lines and so many great bits. you can't really, you can't really like begrudge No aesthetically the other one was just more pleasing. Yes, but I think but you still have to there's something very fun about and also very nice to see like them them like egging each other on quite nicely. L ye They've done really well together those two. It's been a really nice relationship. Yeah. I love their little hug at the end as well. They were they were very proud of themselves and yeah feel like Yeah, I feel like it's very sweet. It's a very sweet gang. And there were lots of good jokes as well. L I really enjoyed Amand is saying Fire the cannon. O, two, three. Is there another? No, okay. just st will appear in the kids tellelly thing that you write. Yeah And ask you to be in I know that I turn down. Okay, we are now everyone gets five points. for a while, we think Camille might have been disqualified or didnt no point because he sort of says that it's meaningless. Now I will okay I'll say I will say Greg says, I'm not sure I've done this before. I'll settle the debate right now. He's done it many, many times. It's kind of worrying that he's forgotten that he's done it so many times. He did it last series, he gave everyone five points. So it happens a lot And I think that also might explain why Camail's a bit not annoyed. I mean Kamail's reaction is very funny. It's very funny because he is and it's something that has happened a few times where you're like, well if everyone gets five points, then no one does. reallyally? Like it might get nothing. want to get nothing gets it It's a fair point to be made. It's a particularly mean point to make at the end of the series when everyone's like the vibes are really good. and that is why K I really loved Kabail saying, canan I do another version that's more TV friendly? Alex looks like he's like, Yeah go on then and Greg's like, no, no excuse him. No I enjoyed that a lot. And I think that's that's quite a cruel lesson to learn right at the end at the end of Taskmaster recording that like There isn't like TV magic. there isn' so much TV magic in Taskmaster where they'll like let you do multiple takes or get away with things like no, we're going to be quite truthful. Yeah We're not going we're going to show that you're competitive annoyed. So everybody's nowutely you In some respects, the scores haven't changed because everybody's got the same. Yes, which I do think if again, if we were in a series as close as it was you know, it was relatively close at the start of this episode, it was relatively close like for a while in this series, but actually by this point, the only person inexplicably, really, in many ways who can challenge Joanna is Armando going into this final task and what would need to happen for that to happen for for him to win becausecause at the end of this episode at the end of this task, it's one hundred sixty four for Joanna and one fifty nine for Armando, which basically means that he needs Joanna to be disqualified and he needs to win this task. So It's not impossible. strranger things have happened, but it's very, very, very unlikely. and as is proven, basically because the reason it's unlikely is not because Joan's not going to get disqualified, it's more that I w is not going to win because it's a very this task is chuck your duck in your buck. You must sit on your chair at all times and you must not touch the ground or anything other than your chair or duck with any part of your body. And that is a very that is a taskysical Yeah, very physical favors Camle and Joel and really batle it out to the end, don't they? They have to scooch these office chairs over to their duck and bucket. It's a lovely idea. It's really fun and it clearly, I think is one of those things that must have been invented by peopleople in the office like while while trying to think of like while while like manoeuvering around. I think there's a is there is there a sitcom where someone I feel like there's inevitably a sitcom where someone I think is it Brooklyn nine nine? I think it must be Brooklyn nine nine the where they for some reason they like say I bet I can't or like as soon as you get up off that chair somethingomething's going to happen. So they say, okay, well, I won't get off the chair. so they sp spend the whole day on the orr it's the office. We've just made it up and we can it. It was our idea in the first place. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Well, Joel wins this by Whisker ahead of the mail. Amy comes in behind them determinedly battling through Armando behind Amy with two points, Joanna with one point. So it is I mean, Joanna doesn't get disqualified. Amanda doesn't do well enough to overtake her. and it just means that the winner of this episode with twenty three points is Joel. Amanda coming in behind him with twenty points, Joanna at sixteen, Camale fifteen and Amy, a tough one for her twelve points And it means that I mean, Joanna wins by five points. Yeah, the series wise, it's Joel with one hundred and fifty points, Amy with one hundred fifty five, Kamillle with one hundred sixty, Amanda with one hundred sixty one. so he gets second and Joanna one hundred sixty five points. So she wins by four points in the end, which I mean, you know, look, we'll go into the stats round upp next week where we'll look at several moments where Joanna could have lost a lot of points really. Yeah, but you kept saying throughout our chats on this that Joanna, you know could have a bad episode next week or whatever and lose this lead She never did, really?. The consistency of Joanna is actually quite impressive. So there had been more she scored twelve, I think in episode. Th I think was her lowest point in the whole series. And again, this is we'll get into it, but like she didn't she didn't hit the height. So she her two best scores came in episode one and two. So she did very, very well. She won the first episode with twenty two points. Second episode she won with nineteen points. She didn't win sorry, she only won one episode whole series, which is again quite rare that the series winner only wins one episode and that episode being in the first episode, that's very rare. But the thing about her is that she never really dropped below. I think apart from that twelve, I think she had a fourteen a couple of weeks ago, maybe last week. But otherwise she's been between like fifteen and ' nineteen the whole series, which I think is a mark of a very successful, a very successful run. I would say, not not spectacular in the sort of M Bayton or John Robbins kind of like racking up all the points, but very much like knows what she has to do to get through each week and sometimes has relied on Ftune to get there, but she's done it. She's done it. remarkable. Yeah It is. and you know, everyone was very pleased. It was very nice. It was lovely end to the show, lovevely end to the series. Well done, Danna well, and we know, don't we, Jack, who's going to be doing the next series. So for those who don't know We are going to break this news as well. It's it's a goodie Series twenty two, the new line upp is Richard Aoardi M Yes. Mat Las. Is he Suti Nina Conte and Chloe Pets. Okay, who do you know, Jack? Well I know of Richard Ioidee, Matt Lucas, Izzy Suti, and Nina Coni. Chloe Pets, I've just worked with as well. so they're great. I' very very. very fun of them. Oh worked with some of them. Okay. I have actually only worked well, Matt Lucas was an old support act of mine Of And I know Izzy and I have met Nina on numerous occasions and I think I think they're all great. This is a really strong lineup. I did a radio recently and Chloe was there and I just find them very funny, really, really funny and local to me. so big South Lond South London. Crystal Palace fan 'ly. I mean, I couldn't give a shit a b foot. for them. They're on my bus route and they messaged me actually a couple of weeks ago said I've just gone past your house. That's a nice creepy thing to say. That's good. I said I saw you carry your bins out. It's all glamour. it's all on the bus it's all glamour. No, I think I think they're very, very funny. and like yeah, I'm very excited for the world to see more of them and if that makes sense because I think I think everyone else in this lineup, I think they're definitely the one where it's like, o who are they? Richard Iard obviously massive, does a lot of I mean, has done a lot of Dave panel shows, but also obviously director and HSB might say being in some of the, you know, some fabulous sitcoms show I loved. U Oh what was the one with Iy crowd The IT crowd. Yes. they're like Pokemon collecting IT crowd members as well. I mean, the only one you won't get is Chris O'Dowd. But never say never because Chris O'Dowd, if Kamaile does it, Chris O'dowd Chris ODowd B big Hollywood star now. But yeah Catherine Parkinson, obviously was the other one from the IT Cowd And then obviously Matt Lucas, pretty massive star no introduction has been a huge member of the British comedy scene since the nineties, I would say. I mean, Izzy Sutty, Dobby from Peep Show is how a lot of people know her, but is also just incredibly funny and like a great stand up in her own right Nina Conte is wonderful. Yeah, Nina Conte is fantastic, obviously, Ventrlicist. And I think we'll obviously see some great ventrloquist work from her at some point in this. And also the daughter of Tom Conte. If that's something else people people don't seem to know this that often about her, whichich it makes it sound like she's an epo baby. I think she is. is not a npo baby. I mean, you know you can't she's one of the best working ventriloquist in the world. She's incredible. She's so W her on your team because if you've got some film te team tasks, she's going to use all that ventriloquism and I'm really sorry it's going to be very hard compete against that. Well, there was a sort of anroke eff fact in this series of of the show and maybe, you know She would have been very good at that as well. Is well, these the sort of the one they had to redub what they were saying. Oh yeah. I suppose I think she'd be good at that. Yeah. I mean she's amazing. She's so, so good and so funny. and I really can't wait to see how they all get on. But you know, also, I'm sad to say goodbye to our series twenty one gang, but looking forward, it's also gonna be a good one. It's also gonna be a good one, Jenny. Yeah, one lot in, one lot out. That's the way it works Emails, a lot of you have been writing in to talk about Camail' nipples Jen votin say she's one thousand percent certain. you can't be a thousand percent certain. I think I think Jen can be Okay, she's one thousand percent certain that he does have nipples and that she's never loved other than hearing you two discuss quite seriously Camale's lack of nipples. Right. Okay. Okay. have we been idiots? I think we might but I'm so angry about this, sorry. Okay. Well more emails, Jessica from San Francisco said that Camale's nipples were highlighted in the painting with Greg's face on Camelle's body, though she has, I'm sure Jack's wife is right and some fat don't have nipples. I know your wife is always right, Jack. She is always right. Yeah,'s always right Well, Darcy from Ral British Columbia apparently had to double check it wasn't april first. and that when you Google Kamail, the second image of him is shirtless with nipples. I've never done that. And Cur Curtis from Las Vegas said, he never expected to be Googling Camail Nanjiani shirtless as a man in his forties Plenty men in their forties wholink mail. I can tell you that o. I feel betrayed, can I just say by the show. I feel betrayed by Kamille because I spent many, many minutes on the show saying how brave it was that he was coming out as a man with no nipples. And obviously now in retrospect, if you look at the internet and you find lots of pictures of Camale with nipples and you find you know lots of evidence he has nipples, yeah, I look like an idiot. But I don't I think that Cam I think he I think he lied to us. And I think it's unfair for us I think it's unfair for us to expect, can I just say it It's unfair for us to expect that we should like keep a running tally of who has nipples and who doesn't. And if someone says, I don't have nipples and they say we're going to believe them. We're gonna to believe them. We'reve ' we're such. just you and I, I well know. We're one of the most gullible people in the world If someone s if someone s ye. No an idiot as m as I am. I'm really sorry, we got this wrong. Kamle has got nipples. Yeah, but I think if someone says I don't have nipples, I'm not going to be like, oh yeah, I'm gonna to go check online. Oh look, I found lots of evidence Do you actually have nipples? How'd you like that? We could I could have just Googled Kamle But but then I'd have thought, well, he works in Hollywood. Exactly. If he have had some fake nipples attached. I think that I would glue them on. I think. I still think that you and I could be right. I think we might be right. You know what? I think we're right. Yeah. We believe that. We're right and evidence to the contrary is wrong. Okay, we'll move on from that. But your wife said definitely It is definitely a thing. It is definitely a thing. Okay. Will you write him, just make us feel better if you haveer niles And too Can you just say if you don't have nipples and you watch this episode and you thought, wow, I feel seen for the first time in my life because a famous Hollywood celebrity hasn't got nipples and they're talking about it on a primetime channel four show. And then can you say how betrayed you were by the fact that that was a lie, A lie that he made up for no reason, No reason' He didn't make his task attempt any better. He should have got two points You've got two points, not four I don't feel quite as betrayed as Jack I I'm quite used to this kind of thing happening to me. So anyway, well done everybody for pointing it out. first for you point out. twowo points, one for each siff. There we go, good. Yeah, Asolutely. Well there we go. And Another email now, an explanation why there are no conquers in the New worldorld. Oh, this is interesting Jenny and Jack, good morning. Thank you so much for your work. I really enjoy your show. I just wanted to shed some light on why we don't play conquers here in the New Wld. The tree that would make the conquer would have been the American chestnut. Its wood and fruit were pillars of the Appalachian economy. In the eighteen hundreds there was a blight from Asia that came and all but wiped out the tree. My Appalachian geography class blamed the cherry trees in DC. but I could not verify that for this email There was a concerted effort in saving the tree. The American government cut huge breaks in the forest and attempted to stop the blight, but these efforts were in vain. There are a handful of these trees that have survived and the blight only affects the tree above the ground. so many of the roots are still alive and growing to this day. That's fascinating. That's really, really interesting Yeah that's what Jeff done. He knows his stuff. he knows his onions, he knows his conkers. He knows his conquers. fact. I will say I have some Australian friends who listen to the podcast and they also wrote in to say to me to say, we don't play conkers in Australia either. So so our lack of our astonishment at the fact that people don't play conkers I think maybe that comes from quite a privileged position. And ye I apologize Be it's raining conquers and itin C come to Britain. We've got so many conkers. L of the problems, but also conkers. Finally, we have Hijack and Jenny. This is from Maria in Bristol. Love the podcast. Thank you Maria. I thought you might enjoyed this interview with Alexon and Greg on the Seared p cast. Wh the conversation took an interesting turn towards which Tas Musk' contestants would be top choice for a hypothetical expedition in nineteen hundred four across the American West. Jenny makes the cut for interviewer Rob mainly for her seafaring abilities. The whole video is interesting, but well that's if anybody wants extra homework, than you, Marie and Bristol. There is a YouTube U interview with Alexon Greg on the Sered podcast. And you and you are apparently Yeah I will probably I will probably give that a ganda. Yeah but you but you can you you're seafaring? Are you seafaring