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Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble, the host of the Taskmaster podcast.
And there is some background noise you'll notice because this is new for the Taskmaster podcast.

We are recording it at the Taskmaster house in the caravan, to be more specific. Very excited to be back on site at Taskmaster.
What a place to record. I will say atmospherically the vibe is good.

The sound is bad because we're under a flight path and also there are live ladybirds in the caravan, which is unusual for a professional podcast.

But we are very excited because we are talking about a brand new series of Taskmaster. We're talking about series 19.
Of course we are. It's so exciting.
What an incredible new lineup.

We're going to get straight into it. I know you want to hear us break down the episode, the first episode of Series 19.
What a belter. What a chaotic bunch.

We have a very special guest to talk about this first episode of Series 19. It is the wonderful Nick Mohammed.
Can't wait to get Nick back into the caravan. Little old Nick, get him into the caravan.

Chat to him about Series 19 of Taskmaster. So let's get on with it.
This is Taskmaster Series 19, episode 1, as discussed by Nick Mohammed.

Oh, hello, Nick. Welcome.
Oh, hello, Ed. Welcome, Nick, to the Taskmaster podcast.
This is very nice. Is this the first time we've done it in person?

This is the first time I've done it with you in person, certainly.

The only other in-person ones I've done are Sam Campbell. Great.
He insisted on it. Did you have to go to him? No, we sort of met halfway.
Okay.

In the middle of the ocean.

Was he in Australia? He was in Australia. Yeah, we went.
Oh, we were on a cruise ship. We met in Singapore.
Yeah.

He's a weird guy. No, he insisted on coming to the production offices of Taskmaster, where he recorded it.
And then

we found out that's because he wanted to snoop.

Oh. He was snooping because he wanted to go to my house to see how he'd done.
No. No, just generally with Snoop.
Oh, right. He was sending me pictures from reception and stuff.
Oh, right. Okay.

Well, that is weird. Yeah, that's weird.
Yeah. Well, we're in the caravan.
We're in the caravan. This is very exciting.
I've not been back in here since back in the day, series 17.

Back in the day, yeah. I mean, we're on series 19, Nick, now.
We are.

How do you feel about that? Because it must feel very recent still. It still feels...
I still feel... Because I just only recently did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.

And people were still asking me stuff from Series 17. So it feels...
I guess I've sort of had to replay a lot of it in my head because of doing that.

I did Series 9, mate. How do you think I feel? 10 series ago.
How long ago was that, though? But as in sort of real terms. In absolute terms.
A thousand years. A thousand years.
Yeah.

This has been going a long time. Seven years.
I must say, and I'm not just saying it because I love the show, show, but having watched this ep one, I was like, ah, we're on series 20 now. No, 19.
19.

19. We're on series.
19 now. How is this going to feel as fresh and fun? Oh, my goodness.
It's good, isn't it? It's really good. Yeah.

Did we talk about the contestants? I think we should. How great they are.
I think we should talk about the contestants. It's a great dynamic, right? Yeah.
Already, it's a great dynamic. One episode.

Well,

let's go through them. Let's start with...
I've got the order written down here, but let's start with Fatia. Fatia.

Fatia elgori who's one of my favourite newer comics absolutely brilliant she is so funny she's really funny and i just love her i mean how greg and her are going to survive to the very end i have no idea because i already felt that she was really quite angry with him we had a lot we had a lot of anger in this first episode we had a lot of back chat back chat

and greg genuinely doesn't quite know how to deal with it which is which is brilliant heavy sexual tension yes that's one yeah that's one way you could describe it yeah

but yeah i think we're already seeing from fatia that

in the task certainly it's like she didn't know she was going to be asked to do stuff oh yeah greg i think greg mentions at one point i think it just feels like this is a massive inconvenience to

be here yeah yeah i love that though oh she's brilliant she's perfect for it perfect for it and one person doing that is ideal right

if everyone felt if everyone oh yeah no you can't no no i i i assume the way it's chosen is not to choose You wouldn't want five fattiers. You wouldn't want five fatias.

That wouldn't last five minutes. I mean, you wouldn't have filmed enough stuff.
You couldn't find them. You couldn't.
You couldn't. There's only one fattier.
There is. Which is brilliant.

Jason Manzoukis. Now, I know Jason as in, I don't know him, know him, but I know of his work and stuff.

And so I was very excited to see that he was going to be on the show, and he has not disappointed me. No, it's a coup.
It's a coup to get Jason. It's a real coup.
Was he a fan of it?

He's a fan of the show, I'm guessing. He's a fan of the show.
Yeah.

I believe requested

to be on. This wasn't.

I I mean, I don't know if I'm speaking out online. Speaking outline,

I think he just asked his agent to really pull up and see

if it was a possibility. Who else do you think is in that? Who do you think there's anyone like, like, really?

Like, I heard, this sounds like a horrible name drop, but it is true. But I heard that Brad Pitt watches Ted Lasso

and likes it. Not that he hates it.
He watched it and he hated it.

And it's weird to think when people think, oh, like really famous people might watch a show that either you like or that you're in or something like that.

There'll be a lot of people. It's less weird with Tad Lasso because it's a big American show, right?

Yeah, well, yeah, but there's a lot of international acclaim for Taskmaster as well, or at least in certain parts of it. Sure, but this, but Taskmaster feels like.
Is it huge in India?

Like, what's it like in different territories? That's what I want to know. I don't know.
No one's wanting to know. No one wants to know this.
Is it huge in India? Yeah. Good question.
Yeah.

Amazon care about things like that, apparently. Do they? Yeah.
Oh, what's their profile like? Yeah, because they're all about their different sort of territories.

I mean, I don't know. I mean, I was just going to tell a really boring story.
I I won't tell it. Okay, thank you.
Thank you.

The other day, there was. Thank you for not pushing me on, Telly.
With Adam Scott and

Ben Stiller saying how much

UK traitors.

Really?

It's always funny, isn't it? Yeah. Okay.
And you know, there's people in production scrubbing around going, how can we get them on? How can we, yeah, quite.

And they're like, oh no, we don't like it that much. Yeah.
And then you realise that people can like things without wanting to be on them. Quite.

And also can sometimes just say that they like things because it makes them look kind of cool or sort of edgy or one of of the people. Yeah, that must be what Brad Pitt's doing with Ted Louis.

I think it is, yeah, yeah.

Huge to have Jason on. He's already bringing that energy that

he's great as well. Just great to have another different accent in there as well.

Matthew Bainton. Oh, Bainton.
But also, I mean,

do we skip to talking about his outfit?

Yeah, I think it's a good thing. They're very short, those shorts, aren't they? They are very, very short.
That was a choice.

It's a bold choice. Yeah.
I mean, I thought I was bold making the choice, but that's bolder. Because it's skinfed.
Interesting.

I'd say that Matthew Bainton's tiny shorts and your full Dracula outfit are both equally bold for different reasons. I guess, is his more impractical.
I guess he'd feel the cold.

I'd be worried just about feeling the cold a little bit. I'd be worried about multiple things.
He looks great. Yeah.
He looks great. The guy's in good nick.
He's in really good nick.

And I know that he really worked hard to keep.

He's always been in good nick. There's going to be a mental health video dropping of Matthew Bainton's pre-Taskmaster workout.
Oh, yeah and post yeah

up at 2 a.m to pro yeah yeah

bainton we know bainton he's always been great fantastic i mean he does look like he's he's sort of already sort of slightly having a nervous breakdown and it's still early days competitive do we think

no

no and i feel like but he's got a great he's got a lot of warmth as as mats i feel that he

he sort of feels happy when other people kind of do well as well which which I always like to do. I think that's very much true, but I also think he's competitive.
Do you think so?

I played football with him, once at the Taskmaster game. I think he's competitive.
He likes to do well. If he thinks he can do well, he likes to do well.
Yeah, like Simon Bird. Yep, like Simon Bird.

Simon Bird. Yep.

Rosie Ramsey.

Now, I wasn't familiar with Rosie, but she's great. She's great.
She's a proper natural, Rosie. A proper natural.
Not sure how well she's going to do, if I'm honest, in the show.

Already, after episode one. Already, yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's difficult not to kind of relate back to

your own, your own, but I don't know. I kind of get like a whiff of sort of the Sophie, Sophie Willin, sort of energy about her.

But I'm sure she'll be the people's champion. Yes, absolutely.
No, Rosie's great. Looking forward to seeing her.
And it was a... This is jumping ahead, but when she found that pee,

I almost cheered out loud. It was great.
Finally, Stevie Martin, who we both know. Ah, Stevie.
I knew Stevie was doing this, and I was like, she's going to be good. She's going to be good at this.

Stevie is thinks outside the box. She is quite chaotic, actually.
Yeah.

But she's good. And

I think she's.

I think she could run away with this. And I think she could do very, very well.
Yeah. But also an insane physicality as well.
Like, I think. Yeah.
Yeah. Just brilliant.
She makes me laugh.

And one observation, I think, of all of them, very sweary.

Oh, no. Yeah.

Really sweary. I don't mind it.
I'm not saying that. It seems like you mind it.
No, I don't mind it. I was just like, oh, everyone's effing and blinding a lot.
Not in your series.

No, no, I don't think anyone did. Did they?

Maybe the odds.

Shit, but no one said.

Well, Amazon have been in contact because your series was the only one that was popular in Vatican City. Perfect.
Well, that's why. Because it was so holy.
It's very holy.

Let's crack on. Let's talk about the prize tasks in this first episode of series 19.
Yes. Fatia.

Okay, the prize task is the object that reminds you of school the most in a good way. Yes.
In a good way. Now, this is key for Fatia's prize, I think.
Yeah. Because Fatia brings in a golf club that

she then didn't get hit with. That her mum gave to a teacher to every time Fatih was playing up was sort of to pretend they were going to hit her.
But then didn't. But then didn't.

Which made it a good thing. So

I think Fatih's making that up up on the spot i think she's forgotten about the in a good way

thing and just thought that this when she's reminded of it no no it was a good thing because i was never here do you think it's true i mean it's quite alarming if it's true i say it's almost more alarming if she's made it up that's true i think it is true i mean it's alarming either way um yeah i mean i think it was i also like that that's the very first one yeah of the of the season and um and greg's reaction to it it's priceless what i love about taskmaster is they're not producing the order of these prizes

in the first episode. So it's going down the line, right? Yeah.

So

whatever it is, whoever it is, you've got to start the whole series. Yes.

Yes. And I will say now, and I think it's quite well known, I didn't really know, I didn't really understand the rules of the Price Ask when I did that.
I think that's well known.

I think we could all see.

And

I didn't know you were meant to kind of impress Greg with.

And I'm maybe questioning whether Fatia knew that as well or whether the thing is I'd say Fatia's golf club is already better than 80% of your oh yeah well one of mine was bath pearls

and the one I always remember Nick is of course

the concept of putting an ice cube in a glass of wine people still message me with that little pictures when they're doing it I love that if they're on a night out but you didn't invent it no I know I didn't but it feels like I did and that's what I like

the first time time I'll tell you the first time I have such a distinct memory of when I first saw it and it was Felicity Montague plays Linen Partridge.

We're working together on something up north and we're in a hotel. We sat by like a sort of fireside.
It's sort of quite cold in Halifax and she just

She ordered a white wine and then she sort of said, oh can I get some ice? And I was like, I immediately was like, ping, hello, what's this? Hello. She popped one in.

I was like, I'm using that and I'm stealing it. And that was in 2013.
And

so it feels like, it feels like the dawn of time for for me. That feels like I was the first to.

Because it was over 10 years ago. Yeah, but how can you feel like you were the first? You've just told a story about how you saw Felicity World.
Well, that's true.

Yeah, but I thought that that's very true. I guess what the second? When I took it off someone else, I really realized that I had discovered something.

Yeah, that's how it works, isn't it? I, yeah, I mean, look, I still do it. Yeah.
I still do it. I'm not going to.

And we're approaching some warmer weather. We are.
So, you know. Pop it in a rose.
Pop it in a rose.

Where were we? Fatia. No, we've done fatia there.

Jason sort of leans into it a little bit more.

The rest of them seems to be more sort of universal, observational, and nostalgic. Quite.
And also, I think it shows the contestants' age, a lot of them as well. True.

Because Jason brings in a pull-down map. Sure.

Which I think. Of the world.
I don't think he was to know how much this would appeal to Greg because just the act of pulling that down, the mechanism, the sound,

the feeling of it. And of course, playing into Greg's age as well, and Greg having, you know, previously been a theater.

Did you have one of them at Scott? No. No, I don't think we had a I don't think we had a pull-down map.
No, I don't think we had a pull-down map. We probably had a pull-down projector screen.

And we definitely had those blackboards rather than certainly rather than interactive whiteboards. Oh, yeah, we didn't have interactive screen.

We had whiteboards as well, but the blackboards we had were ones that were on like a conveyor belt, like on a roller. Do you have

a so you could pull pull it down

and get more value for money, I guess?

Because you get twice as much blackboard without the hassle. Yeah, we had those as well.
And

I was about to say something rude, so I won't say it. Hmm.
It's a shame.

Well,

there was just one teacher we had who

I'm not going to say it. Okay.

Tell me after. I'll tell you after.
Tell me afterwards. Yeah.

Now, this goes down very well. Matthew brings in the TV trolley.
Quite. Which I feel like appeals to multiple generations.
Yes.

I think everyone's had experience of watching Telly at school, and it never quite worked.

I did think he was going to start talking about how they could never really work the telly and you know, because it was always like, oh, and where does this go? And how do I turn this on?

But that's probably, you know, that's probably showing my age, really. But yeah, the TV trolley.
I thought at first it was an old like UHP, you know, overhead projection, not UH, but OHP. OHP.

Uber head projector.

Uve head pijut.

That would have been a good one as well, though. Yes,

I would have, because that's, there's something very retro and nostalgic about that, and the acetate and the kind of the look of the kind of almost faded, yellowy

kind of sort of aesthetic to it. I really like that, actually.

But no, here's the TV stand. Yeah, great.
I think it's good. I think everyone can connect with that moment where the TV gets wheeled in.
You're like, yes, I'm not going to do it anymore.

And watching what are the things I watched. I remember we watched The Witches, you know, the old The Witches thing, which is quite scary.
Yeah.

Where they take off the wigs and they're all

end of term where they couldn't be bothered to do any TV shows. I think it probably was.
It was probably October half term, like, you know, going into October half-term.

Remember distinctly being sat watching that.

Gregory's Girl. Do you remember Gregory's Girl? She saw good stuff.
Ours was mainly like... Like then sex education videos, yeah, sex education.
But that hasn't not the Netflix show.

And they had a thing, and I don't quite know how they did it. And

this is a real memory of it but they were show they were basically showing intercourse but it was sort of from inside the vagina like I'm not making it up it's just true but and I was like and and and they show like yeah ejaculate like within and you know it's conception and so it's fine to sort of talk about it but like um it was

everyone's just like well how where's the camera like how

how have they managed to sort of GoPro yeah yeah Andy D could probably do that. He could, yeah.
He'd have a drone

and a big fish eye.

Yeah. Andy could definitely do that.

The one I really remember at school was

we watched a video about the menstrual cycle. Yeah, from inside.

This is

a boys' school. Oh, yeah.
All absolute idiots. No, this wasn't.

I just remember one, they were interviewing a woman on the video, and she said, I've always thought tampons were people who are a little bit more adventurous. Oh.
And I've never forgotten.

No, that's a good idea. Yeah, it's funny the things that you remember like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, very good. I love my head off, got told off.

Rosie brings in school dinner.

School dinner.

The most intriguing thing about this, the fact that the dessert was on there as well.

But also the dessert seemed to be some cereal.

Yeah, but I went

to the bottom. You and I went to Durham University, right? And I remember in my first year of Durham at Aden's, they would serve...
So it was quite well known that they...

I'm sure I've sold this to you before. It's quite well known that, you you know,

the veg from the previous day would then become like soup the next day. And that's good because that's sort of just, you know, saving and stuff like that.

And then one day, dessert, and I am not making it up. It was one of those lovely sort of little silver dishes, like the little silver pots.
And you could help yourself.

Dessert was sweet corn with some tangerine. No.
Yeah. Yeah.

It was, and they said that was dessert. And it was just like

sweetened. No, that's dessert.
That was sweet. Sweet corn.

And there's tin of tangerines. There you go.
And that was dessert that day. Did you try it?

Probably, yeah. Yeah.
Probably anything.

Yeah.

Hung over it. Eating your sweet corner tangerine.
Yeah. In one of those little pots.
Oh, we got to that, school dinners. Dessert on the same plate, yes.
Yes. Yes.

I mean, I had school lunches, but they were never in the prison trays. That looked like prison food to me.
Oh, it did look like prayers.

Did you have the segmented trays when you were at school? At primary school, but not any older than that. I mean, like, yeah, because primary school, it was very much

at primary school age, yeah. Yeah.
Slop, just sort of slopped out with like bugs in and stuff. And I would spit.

It did look disgusting. It all looked absolutely firm.
What was the quote about like something shouldn't be able to sort of stand up on itself? Yeah, grave. It was grossly, yeah.
Yeah.

I really remember the mash, the mash that would like retain it's sort of perfectly, you know, the shape of the well, they'd use ice cream scoops, yeah, and then it would just be like

two, like, I don't know,

capas. No, no, wait, what's a what's a dome? Millennium dome, millennium, two, two, two small, tiny millennium dome.

Well, no, because the millennium dome is quite a flat, a flat sort of dome, isn't it?

I want something that's more

the millennium dome. It's sort of alienate

half your Christmas. You remember the millennium dome?

Um, Stevie brings in. I remember when there was that big body inside the dome.
Do you remember? You might see the body.

It's like the video. Do you remember Tony Blair? He built the Millennium Dome.

You can climb over it now. Have you ever done that? Yeah, I have actually.
Oh, it feels so anticlimactic because it's not a climb, is it? Well, I did. So Max and Yvanne's The Wrestling.

Did you want that? In 2023, to promote it, we went up there with some press and I body slammed Yvanne on the top of the O2. Well, that's quite exciting.
That's pretty cool. That was an anticlimactic.

That's all. We're really.
Yeah, yeah.

Stevie finally brings in scented gel pens. Yeah.
Now, this is. That's showing her young age, I would say.
I think so. Smiggle and all that lot.
Smiggle? Smiggle. I think Smiggle do the scented pens.

I mean what are the other ones? Silly scents?

You know more? You know more about them. Just because my kids are into them now.
So you can tell me. Yes.
What do the pens smell of? Well this is the problem. Crayola do the silly scents

which are and they're grey and they can be nice. They also do like a range of really foul smelling ones.
Yeah. So there's one that's like yellow which is like moldy cheese or like oh it's horrible.

Why would you want them? And like the kids are sometimes like dad smell this, it's like watermelon. And I'll go, oh, lovely.
And it's like old socks flavor.

Yeah, your kids are absolutely punky you can't do it.

And then they insist, they don't really do them so much anymore.

But then they would insist on writing, you know, if they wrote like a birthday card or something, they would do it in the, so the card would really pong.

And it really, like, so anything they draw would sting. Yeah.
It was horrible. I don't think that's a horrible invention.

That can't be good for the planet.

No, that's not what.

I don't think Stevie's talking about that. No, Stevie's talking about the slightly nicer gel pens.
Yeah. A little bit more kind of glittery, a bit more girly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The nice sort of like fairy sort of fairy dust flavour. Yeah.
Unicorns. So sex.

Rainbows. No, but I bet you're not.
But they'd write the name of the person they were going out with on the back of their hand. Yeah, and it would

smell their name. Like Love Hearts.
You know, like the Love Hearts smell or refreshers, like really just pear drops, that kind of oversweet candy flower.

Ironically at that age, if you're writing a boy's name on the back of your hand, you should be using stinky socks, really. Stinky socks, or like a Sharpie or something.
Yeah.

Make this permanent. Lynx Africa brown.

Lynx Brown.

Fatia got one point, which is fair enough. Stevie got two points, which I felt was a little bit unfair.
It seems to be because Greg couldn't connect with it as an obstacle.

Yeah, I can't imagine Greg using a scented pen. No.
Ever. No.

Rosie got three points.

What did Rosie bring in?

The school dinner. Oh, of course.
Okay, yeah, fair enough for nostalgia.

I thought that would get slightly lower. Matt got four points, and Jason got five points, which this all seems fair.
For me, the TV trolley wins out every time.

Yeah, I think the pull-me-down thing was just nostalgic for Greg. I don't think anyone else would have necessarily awarded that.
Stevie, school, good times?

No, but I found like a sort of cultural cachet in my school, which involves the prize task. Right, cultural cachet.

Yes.

Is it hold it down to get the E acute?

Stay with me.

Yeah.

It is.

So, scented gel pens. So, what people would do is draw their name for the person they were going out with, and then everyone would just walk around smelling the back of their hand all day.

But the cultural cachet was that my name begins with S, so I could do the Superman Superman S thing, which was, do you know the Superman S thing? Yes, of course. Okay.

You said that you were in the 70s or something. I don't know.
They have Superman, didn't they?

Sorry.

Sorry, yes, yes. Here we go.
First task. Yes.
First task of the series, not season. Put your hands on the hands.
Oh, this was funny. Shut your eyes and keep them shut until you hear the whistle.

They then pop two jars of vinegar on the back of the contestants' hands while their eyes are closed. Pour all the vinegar into the fish tank.
Fastest wins.

For every millilitre spilled, one second will be added to your time. Your time started when you heard the whistle.

How would you have done in this, Nick? Because there's that initial panic moment. Oh, so bad in all of them.
It's not, we haven't got to it yet. But that backwards one.

Oh my God, I didn't even understand it. You were already worried.
We're not even talking about the words. I know, I know.
We're not talking about that. Let's talk about the first one.

I think I would have... I wouldn't have enjoyed...
I just love all the ladybirds in there. I wouldn't have enjoyed.
Not often you can say that about a podcast. No, it's not.

It's not always interesting, either.

I wouldn't have enjoyed closing my eyes

in that.

I think I just...

I mean, I know that the task can be sometimes filmed out of order, but especially as an early task, early in the run.

I think I would have been, oh god, they're going to do something horrible. I don't know what's going to happen.

Bearing in mind, I thought that Mr. Blobby task back in, you know,

series 17,

and we were wearing that sort of visor thing or that blinkered thing hands-made tail sort of outfit and I honestly thought

it was a goat that had got like a writer they'd released a wild animal and I was genuinely terrified because it came out made a noise which sounded like me like sounded like a bleating thing but it was the mechanism to make it move I thought it was an animal and it whacked into the back of my legs and it really hurt and then Alex thought oh we're gonna have to do it again because something had gone I think it had like something come off so they were gonna do it again and I thought oh god it's like it's angry it's it's her or it's down or it's gone wild or something like get it back in the tent get it back I was terrified it was going to be a wild animal and that was only because I couldn't see it then I was like oh I'm sure it's so the fact that having your vision obstructed having my vision of skill I'm like oh I'm your imagination runs wild instantly instantly would find that unnerving well this was pretty straightforward I think you you got you get to open open the eyes I think it might must have been a really early task only because

they all seem quite wary don't they also they tell Stevie to go to the lab and she doesn't know which room though. That's very true.
So she's certainly not been to the lab before. Yeah, you're hoping.

Well. You're hoping it's not the final task, and she still doesn't know it's called the final.
That's the lab again. Which is the lab.

Yeah, that was fun. Some amazing attempts to get the jars off.
Pretty impressive.

I think they all did really well.

I would have spilled. Well, no, no, no, quite.
But I think I would have spilled immediately. Immediately.
I think I would have spilled.

No, because I think you're doing yourself down because you're a magician. You're good with your hands.
I think you can.

But I am clumsy as well ed i'm quite clumsy you're not a good magician no no i mean there's a reason why i don't do it anymore

there's mainly mind stuff i love it is my i can only do the mind stuff now yeah never use your hands

anymore um i

yes i think they did do a i would have been concerned about my lips going anywhere near it as well because i think the idea of you know i mean i can demonstrate on it like

that's fine because that's squash in there but if that's like that full with vinegar yeah that would even inhaling the the odor would, I think, make me go, you'd pass out.

I'd pass out. Yeah.
I'd pass out. And I think I'd just be worried about drinking it and then I'd smash it and then it'd drop on the floor and smash.
And so I.

That's the thing that listeners should know about Nick is he will pass out if he inhales vinegar.

Yeah. Some people have to be chloroformed.
Yeah, no, no, no. With Nick

bag of chips over the face.

I never have vinegar on chips. And for that reason, I don't mind a salt and vinegar crisp.
Yeah. A McCoy's, a ridgy one.
You need the ridgy one. More surface area for the vinegar.

The highlights of the hands situation, I do want to talk about Fatia. Yes.
Who seems to be able to bend her fingers. Up.
Up. Yeah, to hold stuff.

And Alex very rarely, he normally keeps poker face, doesn't he?

He's like, what are you doing? Which way are they going? Yeah, I think he was genuinely quite sort of perturbed by that. It was really impressive.
I mean, I can't.

They sort of bent from sort of the middle of the fingers. They bent as if they were the other way around.
Yeah. I've only ever seen that in in harry potter and the goblet of fire when um

i've forgotten his name the one that um uh thingy plays brilliant irish actor um

plays a mad eye moody madai moody yeah um we won't say the actor's name i don't know because we've got brendan gleeson it is brendan gleeson yes um and when he's transforming sort of back into basically david tennon yeah um his fingers when because he hasn't taken enough poly juice potion to kind of keep him sort of transformed his fingers do that Yeah.

That's what I thought when I saw that. So you're suggesting Fatty was transforming.

She's just not taking enough poly juice potion. Well, I don't know who she's transforming back into, but who knows? But yeah.
Greg.

That's the twist.

That's a huge twist for

series 19.

Yeah.

Yeah, everyone else seems to manage it. I mean, Matt slowly

slides them backwards. He really, really wants to do well at the same time.
Yes, he does. Wonderful moment where he gets very close to the jar and just whispers, come on you yeah so gentle

yeah yeah really gentle but competitive

quietly competitive yeah yeah i mean the fact that you know stevie and rosie don't get any spills either i think they do a really good job yeah jason wait i think we're in for a chaotic series with you yeah and that's you know that's an early task as well that's an early task yeah he's the only one who knocks stuff over and spills it at that point then he's into the into the uh front room right with the with the things that go oh so this is the theme of the season, sire!

And just drops a jar straight away. It was great.
So funny. It was perfect.
It was absolutely perfect. Now, obviously, we need to talk about them finding the fish tank.

Everyone is rightly annoyed that the fish tank is a tank

being driven by some more than others. Some more than others.
How would you feel about it? I feel like you would see that and you go, oh, very good. Oh, I'd like that.
Yeah, you'd like that.

I would have seen that. It was here, right? It was right here, right?

We were sitting, yeah.

I would have liked that. I think I would say that I wouldn't have spotted it quickly.
Yes.

But as soon as it was like,

ah,

love it. Yeah.
I'd have loved that.

And then why was it all sort of stuck down? I don't know. It's just

extra annoying things.

Yeah, that is, I wouldn't have, no, I mean, oh, well, if I found it, that, yeah. I'm not fussed with all that.
Yeah. All that business, no.
Everyone finds it apart from Rosie.

I mean, people do miss it. Oh, yeah.
And of course, because in your mind you're looking for a fish tank. Quite.

And your brain will block things out if they're not the thing you're looking for right quite it's like that i don't know if you've seen on instagram that sort of meme where it's like the words like i think black needle and sort of brainstorm or something are put on the same image and then and then this weird kind of audio plays but you only hear when you look at only hear the word that you're reading and it's really weird it's replays it replays it and wherever whichever word you read it will sound like that it's sort of fascinating that must be what alex was doing i think that's what they did yeah they thought well i know Your brain is looking for a fish tank.

Yeah, you won't see this thing.

Yeah, so I mean, look, eventually most of them find it. Rosie does not.
No.

But I think what she does, she goes and finds a jar and writes fish tank on it.

I'm not normally a fan of this because in Taskmaster it's happened a bit where people write on things and they go, that is the thing. Yeah.
Then, no, I like loopholes, but not the...

It's sort of a really annoying philosophical discussion of if you write a label on something, does it make it that thing?

But in this case, I would say her fish tank is way more of a fish tank than the targets. That's sort of what they've done.
So yeah, I didn't mind it.

And I think if you're clutching at straws at that point, fine. Yeah,

I think she does a good job. Yeah.
Yeah.

But it's all about speed in this situation and also millilitres spilled. Obviously, Jason gets one point because

he spilled a lot.

Rosie gets two points because she takes a long old time, 15 minutes, 30. That's the thing, isn't it?

When it's one of those where it's sort of double-pronged, like you know, you're yeah, I can't remember.

Was it the one with the baby trying to bath the baby, and you had the water and the papoose and stuff like that? I was like, Well, I can't, obviously, I can't do this quickly, yeah.

So, you've got to trade off, you've got to make a decision. You've got it, yeah, you've definitely got to trade off.

Yeah, and obviously, it's not, they're not weighted equally, are they? Because it's just whatever Greg decides, like whether he would value time

taken over spillage. You've got to be you've got to be slow and steady, and also very quick.
Slow and steady wins a race, but you've got to be really quick, not spill anything. So quickly slow.

Which is what makes the show.

Matt. Describe the format.
Quickly slow. Matt gets three points.

Which is good. He's very angry about the fish tank.
Yeah, he didn't like that. He didn't like that.
He doesn't like the pun.

Fatia gets four points, which is great. I mean, I think she's going to be.
That's good for Fatia. I think, yeah, I thought she was going to win, actually.
An extra point for her handy fingers.

And Stevie gets the five points.

I think we've got some real insight into what sort of contestant Stevie's going to be. Where she threatens to drink the vinegar if she can't find the fish tank.
But she thought that it was piss.

Yeah, she thought it was the piss. She was so happy to drink the piss.
And then

she had a whole sort of reason as to why that would actually be absolutely fine. Oh no, well, you know, it'd be dehydrating, but you know, it's like, all right, Stevie, yeah, whatever.

Fish tank, fish tank, fish tank. Point of vinegar in the fish tank.
If I don't find it soon, I'm going to drink it. Okay.
I'm either going to hate you or I'm going to hate myself.

Okay, well, I hope it's you in a way this is a tank no it's not a tank well that's a submarine

all right

have I lost my mind

are you taking the piss bruv

what's this what does it look like you fucking assholes

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Task two, part one, do something really cool. You have a maximum of 15 minutes.
Oh my god. This stressed me out.
Your time starts now. Part two, do your cool thing backwards.

The cool thing backwards, played backwards that looks most like the cool thing played forwards wins. You have 15 minutes.
Your time starts now.

I didn't even understand it. And when I...
I've watched it a few times and I still sort of can't work out. It's very well done.
Like, it's an excellent task. Yeah.

Like, it is, I think it's a really good task. And when it was like, do the coolest thing, that could have been it.
That could have been fine.

And then it could be like, I would have got in the fridge, I think. I think I just would have taken everything out of the fridge.
Nice. Or tried to hide in the fridge or something like that.
Yeah.

Maybe with sunglasses on. Like, that's that's what I would have done.
And that's good because it wasn't being judged on the coolness of the thing in the end.

It was being judged on it most looking like the thing. Most looking like the thing.
Yes. So actually getting in the fridge

could have got out the fridge. And you could have got out of the fridge and then it would have been a good thing.
Yeah, and that would have sort of been fine. But oh my goodness me.

And the song.

Let's talk about the song. Shall we talk about the song? Who do we go with first? Let's go with Matt.
Okay. Because he's the one who sprung into your mind first.
Yep.

Doing, obviously, when he says I'm going to do a song, you're like, he doesn't know he's about to be screwed over, Matt. No, no, no, no, no.

And let's just say, Matt is a lovely singer and a lovely guy. A guitar player.
Great guitar player.

The song was very sweet. I think he already seems to engender a protective quality from the audience, the studio audience.
Ah, a lot of them. Yes.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's like sort of a little fawn.

Little lost fawn. Lost for like Mr.
Tumness. Yeah.
Mr. Tumness is sort of.

He is like Tumness. He is Mr.
Tumness, yeah. He's singing from Mr.
Tumnus. But not like the Mr.
Tumness who then betrays Lucy. And no, but even then.
And Tumness is mixed up.

He's really reluctant and he does warn her and he wakes her up because he drugs her, actually. Yeah, that's not good.
He sends it as no, it's not good. Yeah, not so good.
Not that Tumness. No.

The Tumness we initially did. The nice Tumness.
Yeah, the original Tumness.

Yeah. James McAvoy.
McAvoy.

yeah but he does the song it's really impressive it's so impressive it's really really impressive and i know there's subtitles that come up but like that is really impressive yeah i was really impressed and i think everyone was thinking well then he just can't do this i'm presuming and it does have that eurovision quality doesn't it that does kind of like scandinavian sort of yeah quality to it which is great it's really good everything what i've worked out from this task particularly is everything played backwards Sounds Scandinavian.

No, it reminds me of Red Dwarf. Ah! Because of the backwards episode.
Yeah. Where they visit the place where everything's going to be.
Everyone's backwards, yeah.

That's good. And this, this, well, it reminded me of Traitors a little bit, actually.
Did we allow to name check that show? Yeah.

When they sing the nursery rhymes backwards. Yes.
And that was just quite fun. Yeah.

Yeah.

We will not say any more on that. Yes.

He wasn't playing the guitar backwards, was he? That's not possible. No, he was playing the chords in reverse order, I'm guessing.
That's pretty cool though. That's that.
I mean, that

completely, completely. Yeah, well done.
Well done him, honestly, because I think we were all so excited for it to be terrible. Yes.
And then it was brilliant. It was amazing.
Yeah. And

he did very well to get a five, I think, for that. Yes.
And then it was well deserved. Sorry.
Did very well, as in, like, that sounds like he doesn't deserve them. I meant that he did deserve it.

He did very well. Don't worry.

Let's go to the other end of the scale. Let's talk about Fatia.
Yeah.

I mean, I cannot.

She didn't understand it. She definitely didn't understand what.
I don't think she understands either bits.

Because there's one thing about doing something in reverse. Yeah.
But then the idea of that, what she did then being cool. I mean, it's a great.
It is.

I like it.

I want to play that game now. Yeah.
I do want to play it. Do you think it would have been better if she actually could do the game? Oh, well, yeah.
I mean, she got it completely wrong.

If she got it bang on, I'd be like, really impressed. But I thought, because when she did it, I was like, oh, there's a trick to it.

And it's like, remember Kim's game do you ever play that in Kim Scale like where it's basically a tray of different objects covered with a tea towel and then you secretly remove someone secretly removes one and then you show them again and everyone has to work out what objects miss right okay and I love that as like a premise for like a magic memory thing yeah and um so I thought oh it's that she's gonna she knows how many of the different sweets are there yeah so she knows which one he's taken and I was like oh this is this is maybe quite cool cool for me but that no she was doing but she said that oh it would have been better I would have got it if I was holding your hands but how was that meant to have helped?

I really don't know. Because she said there needed to be a connection.
So she said, she then backtracks and says, I can only do it with my friend because me and him know each other. Yeah.

And I have to be holding his hands. Yes.
No, I think she was maybe saying that an extra physical connection would have helped with Alex.

I do. I adore her.
I mean, it's absolutely crackers. It's crackers.
And there was no attempt to speak backwards as well. No, none, no, no, none.
And no. I mean, it was absolutely cracked.

So it was in backwards. When it was played backwards, the backwards clip was...
just it in backwards. In backwards, yeah.
And also it starts with Alex picking up a clearly already chewed sweet. Yeah.

Oh yeah, no, no, yeah.

It was all wrong. But it was funny.
Oh, one of the funniest things. Completely incomprehensible.
I loved it. Yeah.
And the fact that you're going to be awesome.

Do the coolest thing, right? And the guess what sweet you're chewing. So how many sweets have you got? Yeah.
Right, you choose one. I won't look.

I'll be able to tell what you've had by how you're chewing it. It's also not impressive.
Then get it wrong. Get it wrong.
Seven times. Seven times.

There There were probably only eight different seasons. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It couldn't have gone more wrong.

It's also not impressive if you only do it one time. No, you have to.
You need to do it multiple times. You have to get it bang on and then do it again.
It'd be like a Darren Brown.

If you did it, if you could do it and repeat it like that, it'd be brilliant. I love it.
Wouldn't be a great Derren Brown. If Darren Brown did that, I wouldn't be like.

Well, no, it'd take a long time. It's not a feature-length special.
No, it's not. Can you imagine? That's the premise for his new show.

I can guess what sweet you're eating. Yeah.
Derren Brown sweetie pie.

Let's talk about rosie who goes break dancing quite root one when it comes to cool things i think the one that did look all right was the um is it the caterpillar when you wouldn't do that because you can't quite see like where the way

both the dances look different well they when they're played when they're put sort of side by side but i sort of thought i couldn't tell with the caterpillar it could feasibly be i mean it's probably because i can't do it like it could feasibly be that she'd sort of done that yeah i couldn't i if you told me to pick the one that was backwards and which was forwards i wouldn't be able to force i wouldn't have been able to

I think that's because they both were quite bad.

Yeah, true. But it's quite, you know, in terms of a cool thing to do.
Quite romantic. It's quite haunting, though, as well.
It sort of reminded me of. Have you seen the remake of Susperia? No.

Terrifying bit where one of the dancers gets thrown around a mirrored room. It's really talking to witches.
Oh, lord. Okay.
But that's what it.

Is that the one where

Greg said it felt like he was watching CCTV or something like that?

Okay, fine, yeah. It's quite on the nose, isn't it? Yeah, right.

Whereas I'm going

for a reference of Luca. It's Tomato, when sort of Sarah Connor gets sort of dragged back to a cell or something like that.
Yeah. Yeah.

Let's talk about Jason.

Again, real insight into Jason's character. He brought a lockpick set with him.
I know. I know.
Which is cool. It is cool because you've been practicing.

He gets cut off a little bit by Greg, who's obviously saying it's terrifying, which is fair enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I know I looked into it.

You can buy these lockpick sets and then you can buy the locks, which you obviously know this, the locks that are like see-through, so you can see the mechanism within you can see it working oh right i was very intrigued to see him on that lock though because i've done some lock picking in the past like houdini stuff and like and i i don't think you can pick those locks out he did it did he do it yeah for real did it look like it looked pretty cool to me it's pretty cool and it is cool it's a cool skill but i guess when he did it backwards did he have to lock himself back in again yeah oh so he has to yeah that's what you really would because he has to do it backwards go from outside and then relock yeah you can't do that with those doors No.

I mean, what burglars are doing that as well? What? Locking themselves into your house. And you've left the door open.

You've left your door open. Yeah, the burglar comes in.
They come in, locks themselves

in, and they don't take anything. Yeah, they put stuff in.
Yeah.

They bring stuff in. Stuff you've lost, they bring that back in.
Bring back the backwards burglar. There you go.
The backwards burglar. But very, very good.
And no one else is doing that, are they?

No one else is doing that. No one else would have thought that's what I'm going to do.
Yeah. No, you're right.

And it is great, isn't it? Because it really is five very distinct looks into their personalities. Yes.

Well, let's finally talk.

Let's talk about Stevies, which I love. I quite liked it.
I thought it was great. I thought it totally deserved the four points because

it's like very quickly, like, I'm just going to throw that into the bin. But also, the catch.
She would have had to catch it without really looking.

In the reverse one. When it came out of the bin.
Yeah. The little head that popped out.
Yeah.

Which is the funniest way to do that. Because

she must have been gutted when she read the second part of the task that she had to do that in reverse It is a cool thing to do as well because it's very smug isn't it to be like

backwards, you know over the head. Yeah, that was basketball.
It was great, but so funny to do it. Suddenly it's a wheelie bin and someone pops up.
Someone has to be inside. Someone has to be inside.

Otherwise,

I thought it was great. I think it's leaning into the fact that it probably won't look exactly the same or accurate, but it'll be funny enough

to overcome that. Yes.
Yes. So a well-deserved four points.
Yes. And Matt won, didn't he? Yeah.
He got five points. Yeah.
Jason got three points. Rosie got two points.
And Fatia. Don't know why.

Gets one point. Oh, God.
I love that game. I sort of want to play it.
Yeah.

Well, I want to see it. I sort of want to see it work.

I want to see her and her friend do it. Yeah, you need that.
Or you need someone you have a connection with or hold hands.

It's time, Horn.

It's time, drawing.

So that was the footage reversed, obviously. Oh, was it? Yes.

Stevie, I'm not one for platitudes. It might be the single coolest thing I've ever seen.

I enjoyed the addition of the little man popping out of the bin.

No notes. It's fine.
Task three, win the Peelympics, or indeed the Peel Olympics. There are five events.
The top two performers in each event get a medal. Most medals wins.

Event one, work out which pillow the P is under. In the fewest guesses, you may not tamper with the pillow before guessing.
You have three minutes.

Event two, balance your pee on the highest tower of carrots. You have three minutes.
Event three, catch a pee fired from the pee catapult. If you catch a pee in one hand, your time is divided by two.

If you catch a pee in your mouth, your time is divided by five. Event four, throw a pee the furthest.
Event five, find your thrown pee the fastest. You have a maximum of three minutes.

That's a lot to get through it is a lot it is a lot to get can i just say immediate shout out to the genius way of announcing the scoring at the end where the with the podiums yes yeah it is very and showed them on the podiums i thought that was so great it's very good also

uh so this was obviously on location it looked lovely it looked beautiful i don't know where they were i don't know where it is lovely day windy day which obviously didn't help windy very windy day for matt i loved him showing how windy it was by holding something up and it just blowing in completely the opposite direction Yeah.

And also, I just felt it'd be really cold. Yeah.
Cold on them legs. With those little.
Yeah, those pale little Mr. Tundas.

Poor little Mr. Tunders.
His poor little hooves.

This looked fun as well. It looked really fun.
I think the merch. I'm quite good at throwing stuff up in the air and catching it in my mouth.

Like a grape. Yeah.
You can do it with a grape. Yeah.
And I can go quite high with it. Yeah.

And I get in trouble doing it at home because we obviously don't want the kids to do it because they'll choke. But I can do it.

You have to wait until they go to bed to do it. Yeah.
Yeah. Or first thing in the morning, get up at a guest.
Get up especially early. Where's Daddy? He's outside.

It's 5 a.m. It's 5 a.m.
He's outside in the garden where you can't see him

chucking grapes in the air.

But whether I could do it with a pee at speed, and obviously I'm in less control with it being. Well, with the catapult coming in.

Well, this is why it was good to see Stevie and Jason, the agents of chaos, as I'm calling them already, going right up to the catapult and just having them fired at full velocity into their weapons.

Which could really cause some... I would be nervous about that.
Yeah, don't do that around your kids. No, definitely not.
No way.

There's so much to talk about here. We're going to

pick out some highlights.

I am enjoying just watching Fatia not care about some stuff. Oh, yeah.
She's just decided what she can and what she can. She'd been sort of driven here, and it's like, well, why? What, why, where?

Preppy Olympics. Are you kidding me?

But also. And the fact that there was five sort of bits to it.
Oh, it's not even one thing I have to do. It's five.
But she's, I don't know how late this was in her Taskmaster journey.

She's worked out that Alex is annoying. Yes.
She already worked out that if she threw the P, then she was going to have to go and get it. So she did the trade-off.

She threw it a tiny amount and then could pick it up straight away, which is very, very smart. That is smart.
That's very smart. What did she refer to, Alex, in the previous round?

Like a something Muppet. Muppet features.
Muppet features, right? Yeah. Yeah.
There you go. That's what she thinks of Alex.
No one gets the pillow thing. No one gets it.
It's alphabetical.

No, I wouldn't have got that. But even, I think it's even fattier who says there's 26.
Oh, yeah, she's got a lot of money. 26 pillows.
And then she's like, it's not, it's not relevant.

Yeah, if someone had told me there's 26 pillows, which one do you think the pee is under? Yeah. Then I would have got it.
Yeah.

Well, I wouldn't, because I would have counted from the center of the spiral. Well, again, then you get, yeah, but you could still

get it on the next one. But anything where it's turning over stuff to to find it, I'm always bad at.
Really? Yeah.

Well,

Stevie decides she's going to get a pee, put it under a pillow and cheat and say, I found this pee under the pillow. Yes.
Puts it under, but she straight away puts it under the right one.

So she lifts the pillow up and there's two peas. And for a while, she's completely, her mind is blown.
Oh, it's like, it's like they've done a Darren Brown on that. Yeah, it is.
It's a lovely moment.

And also,

yeah, you know, good to take that chance in a way. Yeah, I think so.
And she, she tampers with it, though. You weren't allowed to tamper with the pillow, but it was a very, very funny moment.

Yeah, I would have been bad at a lot of this, I think, but just so much, so much fun. I like the building the tower of the carrots.
I think that

I like the idea of biting into a carrot. I think I did one where I had to make a nib, like a pen out of a carrot, or a quill.
And I quite liked sort of fashioning it with my teeth. Yeah.

Sort of feel like, you know, like a rabbit in a cartoon or something.

And it's like a sculpture. Yeah.

but like the the idea that people were kind of really going into it to make sort of like a structure like beams like scaffolding out of carrots basically well jason uses his pocket knife that he has with him all the time yeah i guess that goes with his sort of lockpicking skills

yeah yeah he's basically ready he is really cool he's he looks cool as well he's a cool guy he's ready for the apocalypse um

You wanted to talk about Rosie finding that pee because that was a huge moment.

Oh, I mean,

it looked like all hope was lost. Yeah.
I mean, she was in like the long grass at the bottom of that hill. And she's like, ah!

I mean, how did she find that? And she found it quicker than Jason did, and he put it inside a carrot. That's true.
That's true. That was smart, by the way.
Yeah. Lobbing it, you know,

putting it inside a carrot. Where were the elastic bands? And did he have those on him as well? No, surely not.
There must have been elastic bands. My favourite was Matt, though, because he...
He

thought this through.

He thought this through so much that he was practicing throwing the carrots, see how far he could get it. Then he threw the carrot.

He had to go and get it back, but it was just a field of carrots by that point because he'd practiced with so many.

Sometimes you can be overprepared. You can.

But look,

everyone was incredible in this.

I did wonder when he was like, can I do a practice one? But actually, that was who was sort of duping them. That was his real one.

So he was sort of almost, you know,

trying to sort of like, if it did well, then that would be his go. But he'd sort of duped them by saying, oh, let me just do a practice.
I kind of got you. That was my real one.

Not very good.

But look,

everyone got some medals. Everyone got some points.
Everyone did all right. Stevie got two points.
Matt got two points. Fatia gets three points for her two gold medals.
Yeah.

Jason and Rosie both five points for their three medals. Yes.

But again, I think this is such a perfect first episode. And that task

showed us all of their different personalities. Yeah, yeah.

Find your throne pee the fastest. You You have a maximum of three minutes.
Time's thrusty when you open the tub. Be careful.
Why did I do practices? There's my pee. Can you see it? That was my one.

Did you find a pee? Yeah, I did.

Is that it? Yeah, that's it. You've got two minutes, ten.

You're going to be finding peas, not carrots.

I've got the clock. Yes!

Mackey, we're not even one full episode into this series, and I think you might be close to the edge.

That is not even close to my lowest ebb. I remember that fondly, if anything.

Let's talk about the live task. The first live task: get the most raisins in your wine glass.
You may only touch raisins with your mouth.

You must not bend at the waist, and your hands must be behind your back at all times. Also, every time you drop a raisin into your wine glass, you must shout the name of one of your competitors.

The competitor must immediately shout their name too. If they don't, Alex will empty their wine glass.
You have 100 seconds. This is chaos.
It's absolute chaos because

there are too many things to remember. Too many things to remember.
Everyone does it so weirdly.

Stevie... Yeah.
Is she a human being? Because she drops the floor so quickly without using her hands and then just starts going

the raisins. It's so weird.

I know. Also, it's sort of like people forget they're being filmed.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no dignity left for me.
There's no dignity for the live task. Yeah,

Matt grabs a whole plate and tries to dunk all of them in

at the same time. It works for him.
He does very well. Very, very good.
Yeah. Rosie's all over the place.
Who knocked over their glass at the end as well? Jason, he's just smashing the place up.

It's Kate Morse or Flatia. It's science.
Fatia does nothing. No.
She's just decided it's not for her. No.
She's blowing on the raisins now and again to make it look like something's going on.

But is that real? Is it she's sort of like, I've now just lost interest. Yeah, yeah, I think she's just like, I'm not not

going to shut those shoes. She didn't want to mess those shoes up there, knew.
Oh, of course. It was because of the shoes.

I do think Fatia has a higher or no, yeah, a higher threshold for what's undignified. Yes.
So, yeah, she's not going to. She's not going to

be a bad person. No, no, no, no.
Fair play. That's for everyone else.
And there was probably a sense of her knowing how she'd already fared in this episode. Yeah.

So maybe wasn't trying to fight for it. No, wasn't trying to kind of get a win.
And it's early days as well. So she can maybe kind of come back.
It is funny when there's one person.

Choose which tasks you want to exit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, someone's like not joining in, because they're like, I'm not doing this. Yeah.
How undignified everyone else looks. Quite.

Well, it does make everyone else suddenly question, oh, maybe I should make a, maybe I should stand with you. On the floor with your hands behind your back, spitting raisins.

Spitting raisins, that drool coming out of you.

It's like, it's literally like a kid's party. Yeah.

Like a bad part? Yeah. Like a really bad mud.

Like you turn up to get your kid and you're like, what the hell has happened? What's happened? What have you given them to eat? Yeah, what was that? Where's the person in charge?

How many numbers? How many have they had?

What are they doing? Why are they shouting at each other? What game is it? It is like the game of like an eight-year-old boy. Yeah.
He wasn't wearing these trousers when I left. What's going on?

What's wrong with his mouth?

What's all that round his mouth?

Yeah.

But yeah, total chaos, but I think it's a real promising start to this series. Yeah.
I think if they're that mad, they seem to all be getting along well as well. They do.

They are a very good bunch. Yeah.
A very good bunch. I would say they're one of the wildest, unpredictable bunches

in a while. There's no one, I mean, like, because

you would say, like, maybe there's an element of like,

you know, someone sort of like,

I guess Fatia not wanting to kind of partake in it is kind of a good example of this, like, like, you know, has quite a sort of a a

serious approach to some of it.

But also, then, when she does do tasks, it's like, but you've just done that one where people have to eat a sweet and work out who should, like, that's not that's not the mind of someone who's taking things seriously either.

You know, there's a serious edge to it, but not, yeah, I love it. No, it's for it's, I think we're in for a real treat.
And we've got Jason, who I don't think is interested in doing well points-wise.

I think he is

the joker in the dark. He's there to kind of

watch the word world burn, yeah. Yeah, because that's actually that's a very good, a very good play, actually, Is to, well, if I'm not going to win, I'm just going to stop everyone else from winning.

I mean, that's quite a good way of doing it. And then maybe, oh, I should have thought of that.
Yeah, he just wants to get on the roof.

So, episode scores. Matt, Matt, Matt does very well.
Matt does very well because he gets five points in the live task. Stevie gets four points, as does Rosie, with exactly the same amount of raisins.

That's weird, isn't it? That is, that is, yes, that is weird. But also, Matt got 315 raisins.
Crazy. The next best, Stevie and Rosie, 70 raisins.
Yeah, and then Jason, two points for three raisins.

And then obviously Fatia, one point for no raisins. Which should really have been no points for no raisins, shouldn't it?

Especially because you hadn't tried. Yeah, I hadn't tried at all.
Just blew on them. No.

Blew on them. And was she thinking that

they were going to

fire into the glass?

Just in a perfect arc of raisins.

That's how it works.

All of them. Yeah.

There we go. Done.
Matt wins the first episode with 19 points. Stevie close behind on 17.
Rosie on 16. Jason on 16.
And Fatia on 10 points. Nick, thank you so much.

Thank you so much for being our first guest in the caravan for the next day. Absolutely.
Pleasure to be back. Now, we always ask our guests to rate their experience on the podcast.
It feels...

less sort of threatening doing that on Zoom, but now we're sat in here. Please tell us, Nick.
My experience has been wonderful. I've had a squash in Ivo's glass.
Yes.

It's lovely weather.

Little ladybirds are out because it's sort of spring. Yes.
Late spring. Lovely to see you as always.
Nice to see you. Nice that there's another series of Taskmaster.
They seem like a brilliant bunch.

Yeah, I think it's a good one. I can't wait to see

how it plays out. Really good stuff.
I don't believe it's going to win. Well, this is it.
So we're going to ask you as the first guest to give a prediction. Do a prediction.

Now, obviously, you're good at predictions. You predicted your own point score on your series.
I did.

How far ahead can you predict? Do you think you could predict the winner and their point score? Well, I did a prediction.

No, I don't want to ever be that specific. I think it's better to be sort of like say something about the numbers.
Okay. So that's sort of what I did with my score.

And then was it, was it must have been the last series where I predicted that,

I can't remember the specifics of it. You'd have to listen to the podcast that

Jenny does with Jack. Yes.

Where I think I predicted there was a...

Together we predicted there'd be a seven and a three or three sevens or seven threes. I can't remember what it was.
It must have been three sevens or or something like that um

so this one let's say

name a number between one and ten eight okay that's too many because how many are there the five uh

let's say let's go number between five and eight six okay six let's say there's six

let's say that in the final scores this is official

there will be

six ones and one six six ones and one six i'm saying it now in the final scores there will be six ones number ones yeah and one number six good prediction it's vague and who do you think is going to win

based on

i think stevie's going to win okay i just think stevie it's a solid choice i mean she's done very well in this first yeah i i think i think matt might crumble eventually i think i think matt's doing very well but i think actually he's gonna slowly have a nervous you can never tell after one episode like i mean i'd love it if fatia won oh if do you i mean can you imagine yeah that would be huge news i just can't imagine it i can't imagine it and i don't think it's going to happen but i adore her and sort of want it to be true yeah and rosie i mean look rosie might you seem to say all of them nick yeah i'm no i'm gonna stay stevie i'm gonna stick with stevie yeah i think stevie i think stevie's the safest bet yes i think if you were gonna bet stevie just before you go nick thank you you're on tour oh do i have to say do i do a plug for the tour you can do if you want.

Oh, all right. Yeah, why not? Well, I'll do the details.

When does that kick off? When's this going out? Oh, soon. This will be in May.
Yeah. Oh, well, the tour starts in May.
That's good. Yeah.
So, this, my first tour date, it's called Mr.

Swallow Show Pony. They're all called that, not just the first one, right? You are, sorry.
They're all called that. No, they're different names.

Every time. You have a lot of work every

different two-hour show every time.

It's an evening with.

No, it's called Mr. Swallow Show Pony.

Starts mid-May through till June. We're going to do an autumn extension, and I think you can already get tickets for that.
NickMohammedlive.com. Lovely.
You can get it all from there.

We'll all be there. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you so much, Nick.
My character is Mr. Swallow.
So if you don't really like Mr. Swallow, don't come because it is just awesome.
You should love Mr.

Swallow. If you don't like Mr.
Swallow, Mr. Swallow, he is fun and he's funnier than I am.
So, yeah.

Thank you for coming back on the Taskmaster podcast, Nick. Always lovely to see you.
Thank you.

Thank you so much to Nick for coming on the podcast. A joy to speak to him.
Of course, go and see Nick on tour, Mr. Swallow's Show Pony.
Go onto his website. He gave his website there.

Go and get tickets for it. He's absolutely incredible.
Unmissable is Mr. Swallow.
Thank you.

We'll be back next week, of course.

Taskmaster Channel 4, Thursdays, 9 p.m., straight after the new episodes. Come here for a brand new episode of the podcast.
Episode 2 next week, of course, as is the tradition with numbers.

And we have a contestant from Taskmaster Series 19, the wonderful Matt Bainton. Matt will be with us here in the studio.
Question mark, Caravan, to talk all about his Taskmaster experience.

See you next week. Bye.

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