Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 86. *Champion of Champions #2 Winner*

Episode Date: June 23, 2022

The day has finally arrived! On this week's podcast all things Champion of Champions Series 6-10 are discussed. There's wet ducks, 5 pieces of wonderful art and some very heavy balloons. PLUS there is even a little prediction for Series 14. Enjoy, your time starts now! Watch all of Taskmaster on All 4 (including the CofC) www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster Visit the Taskmaster Store for all your TM goodies!taskmasterstore.com Visit the Taskmaster YouTube Channelyoutube.com/taskmaster Get in touch with Ed and future guests:[e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Of course, combining all of the champions from series six to series 10, all battling against each other for dominance and for that sweet, sweet title of champion of champions. I, today, well, I'm in it, obviously, I'm sure you know that if you're listening to this, people have been very excited about this episode. I was very excited to film this episode as well. Did it go well? You will have to listen to the podcast and watch the episode crucially. Do not listen to this if you've not watched the episode. I'm about to announce our special guest who we talked to about Champion of Champions 2.

Go and watch the episode. This is your last chance to go and do it before listening to this podcast. I'm sure there's no one who was attempting to listen to this without watching the episode. Our special guest today is Champion of Champions Richard Herring. Oh my goodness. Did anyone expect me to be saying that on this podcast? I am of course devastated, but also I think it's hilarious. I'm straddling the two camps. Really looking forward to speaking to Richard and then also not looking forward to speaking to Richard at all, because'd imagine he's going to rub it in my face somewhat and laugh at me because I think we're probably the two most competitive on that line up. Well actually no carry and loot. I think Lees is the only chill one. We're all very competitive. I think we're all annoyed

that Richard won but it is very funny, objectively hilarious. It's a very good episode. I really hope you enjoyed watching the episode. We had a huge amount of fun making it and I hope that comes across. I had an absolute disaster. I think one of the tasks may go down in my taskmaster history book, which is a shame, because it was a mess. Look, my job on this podcast normally, I'm not normally talking about things that I've done. So it's going to be a little experiment for when we talk about series nine. I will try and stay as objective as possible.

If I feel like I got points I didn't deserve, I will say it. If I feel like other people got points they didn't deserve, I will also say it as well. If I feel like I should have got more points, yes, of course, I will say say it as well. If I feel like I should have got more points, yes, of course I will say it. I don't think I was robbed of any points. In fact, I think I might have got more points than I deserved on some occasions. So let's all listen to me try and talk to Richard Herring for about 45 minutes to an hour,

or ideally 5 to 10 minutes about Taskmaster, Champion of Champions 2. Welcome Richard Herring, Champion of Champions to the Taskmaster podcast. Oh, what a lovely thing to hear, you say. And I said it was such grace, and dignity, didn't I? I am so glad we can talk about this now. Yes, it's been a long time waiting. It's been a long time waiting of me reading all your tweets where you're gleefully talking about how

I'm probably not going to win it really, really deliberately, all those tweets that were supposedly to the general public and I know they were basically at Ed Gamble comedy. They were just directly to me. Well Ed, you know, I didn't really even mind about winning as long as you came last. That was the real... It's what you said all along. You've never changed your position on that. I was 100% prepared to commit Harry Kirraff and to end and damage myself so that that happened to you.

Yeah, I didn't need to as it happened, so that's good. What I'll say is at the top, obviously at her, at her coming last, but I think if you were writing this as a sort of massive sitcom art, the funniest thing that could have happened is you winning a me coming last. Well, or vice versa, I have to say, yeah, it's... Well, no, because my character within the sitcom is sort of like your competent taskmaster contestant. But I will say, and I said it before, and I will still say it, and I did say it on Twitter,

I think that doing one episode is not enough to make the decision, and that leaves it. Clearly one, but sure. Anyone can win one episode, right? So I don't think it's all that I've ever done. Well, as evidence by how close it was in the end, I think. Yeah, that it all came down. But that's the beat of Taskmaster. Sometimes it just comes down to whether you can, you can have a suitcase full of balloons

or bricks and full Greg and it just worked out perfectly. So we wish, I mean, we should, we'll talk about the episode in detail, of course. And I'll, of course, as usual, people who listen to this podcast will know that sometimes I have issues with Greg's scores and I do have some of the issues with some of the scoring but I will try and be as fair as possible with my sort of judgements on it I'm not just going to say oh Richard you deserve one point there point there. There's an interesting question written down here actually. The producer, wonderful producer of this podcast, Daisy, has written down a couple of questions. And one of them is, Richard was the contestant who did the series most recently out of everyone.

Did this give you an edge Richard? Possibly. I think it was, you know, I think having done it recently and I learnt some lessons from my performance in the series. But I think I would have, that would have still worked even if it had been two or three years ago. So I came into this with a very different mindset because I was just quite nervous in the series and also just rushed into everything and I decided and also the days I recorded were all kind of slightly weird and I decided I was going to enjoy this and just have fun and I didn't expect to win but I you know but I also wanted to do my best but I also wanted to be a bit more entertaining, I think, as well. Weirdly, also though, of course, I had three weeks, which doesn't make it into the show, but we did mention in the studio. Three weeks before we recorded the task, I had had surgery for testicular cancer.

And so was not officially meant to be lifting anything or really moving around very much. They were very generous and kind and made sure that I was looked after obviously but it was a sort of weird time in my life. Yeah, of course. So I think like partly I just thought well this is great it's love to be here for how I've had a lot of good people. Maybe someone else would be sitting in for me in the studio. And that was very much my thought when I let you in. I thought, you know, there's no, you know, this might be Richard's last television appearance. But by the studio time, because that was September, I was pretty much back on track and everything was fine.

What was weird was I was the only contestant who'd never experienced a live audience at the studio before. I found it really weird. I've actually cut these bits out as well but I think like at the beginning I could barely string a sentence together. I think I said the word taskmaster wrong in my first sentence because I was so overroared by what was you know it was the atmosphere was incredible but it was like. Oh, it was amazing.

But also just even to be so close to each other, it felt like the wrong way round compared to where we were last the way we'd done ours. So there was a lot of weird stuff. So yeah, there's possibly an advantage from having done it recently and just being slightly tuned into it, but. But as Greg says during the episode, you definitely learn your lessons from series 10, I think.

Yeah. And yeah, it's a very strong episode for you Richard, I will give you that. Well, there's some moments of weakness, but I knew that they were there, but yeah, yeah. But everyone has those, right? Yeah. This episode is fairly, I don't think anyone sort of completely runs away with it, apart from, I guess, maybe, Lisa is the most consistent in this episode. But I think everyone, everyone has a moment of doing something very well. Yeah, it's a great episode, I think. I think it's really good

tasks and it's, you know, and also what it was just an absolute pleasure right and I genuinely say that I mean if you'd one that had been annoyed but But whoever won I wouldn't I didn't you know it was it was such a good team of people and obviously everyone's a winner and It was just really I just it was so isn't it just so lovely to get a chance to go about obviously now I can go back and be in the champion of champions well quiet exactly I think it's like At least a decade away though, so I might not I might let you be the my standard Happy to stand in Richard Me versus Josh Whitticken this is Josh Widikam, I'll take that.

Quickly before we get onto the tasks, let's talk about the opening titles. Yes. Because we were given that as a task essentially, which was to do heroic things. We had to look like a champion in the taskmaster titles. You must do five different heroic things for five seconds. You have 20 minutes. Your time starts now. Now, at the time when I filmed it, I don't know if you were the same. I was told that it might be scored. Yeah, they sort of said it might be, but it sounded like it would.

I was the last to film the tasks, I think, because of my surgery, and I think they'd probably decided by then it wasn't. It seemed to shame that it wasn't scored, given that. Well, I mean, you say that, but yours were absolutely terrible. I mean, my mum was one were bad. I would definitely not have won. I actually, because I've seen it a couple of times now, and I sort of was just taking it all in, you know, as a piece, watching what everyone did, and then I was like, I'm just going to watch what Richard did, so I can talk to him about it. One of them you're just cheering in the driveway.

Well, let's be honest. One of them you're walking down the corridor, and one of them, what's heroic about being in a caravan full of balloons? I think they were suggesting loads of this, so I think I realized it wasn't a task because they were suggesting loads of things. When I, when they said, I just did that, I went, yeah, they said, that's a good one, do that, it is not. And then to walk, I think the walking down the corridor is the worst, the worst one. Yeah, that's your first, when they open with that one, just sort of balschily walking down the corridor. It comes a hero, it comes a champion.

I think I might have done something in the bush as well, but I don't think they didn't put it in, so. Yeah, I might be wrong. There was lots of good stuff in there, though. It was a fun way to open it, I think. And the amount of time I spent panicking about mine, and then it turns out it wasn't really, there was no point panicking about it at all, getting a rope, pretending to climb up the side

of the caravan, chasing a ghost. You know, at one point, we were trying to work out a way that we could film me in that dome thing, completely naked, covered in blood screaming. Not for ages, we talked about that. film me in that dome thing completely naked covered in blood screaming. For ages we talked about that. Little did I know Richard was just going, well I walked down here and I'd cheer in the driveway. Have you got any balloons? Get me in the caravan. So if you think John is out in John, I mean, yeah, I didn't even mention the out in John one. I mean, he's a good singer, but how's that heroic?

So, luckily for you, it wasn't scored. Let's talk about the prize task for the Champions 2. The thing that makes everyone go, wow, that really is the greatest thing. Pretty solid prize task, I think. I panicked a bit when I got it through. Yeah, it's quite a hard one to, yeah, to, you've got to think a little bit, literally, and I mean, again, I think for my one, they didn't include most of what I said about what it did.

And I think it seems a bit on underwhelming in the actual show, but I kind of, my feeling was, again, it was, look, we've had a great time doing this and it's sort of ridiculous that we're getting paid to do this job. So I thought I would basically take my fee and just, I thought, there were so many shit prizes on, especially my series, I think. Very bad. I think your series actually started a trend of terrible prizes. Yeah. And so, you know, there was nothing you actually wanted to take away. So I thought what would be great would be to give a prize

that you would actually get like in a proper game show. And also something that I think is fantastic, which is the City of Pompeii. So for me, that was, it was more, let's have a champion of champions worthy prize, which I think was, was quite a good idea. I think I was, I was surprised. I mean yours is incredible.

Yeah, yeah, true. And definitely, and definitely the best one. And if we'd ended the episode there, I'd have to. No, obviously, I knew what I had to do with the prize task because I know what I'd done for all the other tasks. So we'd filmed, we'd filmed them all already. I knew that it was pretty much a disaster from beginning to end from me.

So I knew I had to pull it out of the bag and try and get the five points. And I thought unless someone does something pretty amazing, me sending my trophy to space is not going to be, is not going to be beaten. Also appeals to the ego of the taskmaster, doesn't it? The idea that he's floating above the above the earth looking down and Yeah, I thought that's pretty good pretty pretty amazing thing to do and then at least I can pull those points back early before we say You know go into the grape task or go into the duck task But I think yeah yours is great a great idea and yeah, I mean It's annoying you one obviously isn't it Richard because otherwise we would have been to Pompeii by now. Well not me actually someone would have been to pump someone would have been to Pompeii.

I don't I don't I will go at some point but you know it's sort of seems pointless to send myself to Pompeii but there we'll go I will go back at some point so I'll make sure we go in some style. I'll take my wife. But I was sort of surprised. I was surprised that the other three didn't do better. I thought I actually thought carries was better than Greg thought it was. I thought I thought carries in at least have come third. What would have been best of all, Ed, is if I'd spent all that money on a holiday's Pompeii, lost the episode, I've also only got one point for that prize. That would've been the absolutely...

LAUGHTER That would've been absolutely the best comedic possibility. But I thought carries was better. Well, there's good thing for... The thing with carries, I think... I liked it as well, and she'd thought about it, and she'd worked a way of doing a good prize task that she didn't necessarily have to take too much time to send a trophy in

space or spend a huge amount of money on a trip to Pompeii. But I think sometimes things are a bit too smart for Greg. If someone's clearly like, well I've done this, I've tricked my way around the prize task. He does like to punish that sometimes I think. And we all had to read that play out. Yeah. Another terrible part for me. And they didn't include this in the, in the studio. You didn't have a line for ages. And I was just sat there going, please,

Kerry, if you've not given Richard any lines, it's going to be the best thing you've ever done in your career, I think. And a huge call back to your series, obviously as well. Um, no, No, I agree. I thought, you know, on a different day, Greg might have bumped that up to three points, but it was Lisa who got the three points for a photo of her with Johnny Vaughan and David Bowie, slash Bowie. I mean, yeah, I guess it is a bit of a wow, but it's not the greatest thing, is it?

I don't think anyone's saying that's the greatest thing and it does feel like she's just sort of dug around in a drawer at home. Yeah, which I was surprised at because I think, you know, maybe she just thought, you know, I've done so well in all the tasks. I don't think she's going to be a bad sit. But I was surprised she didn't, you know, but that's it. That's why she's a great contestant because she's not, you know, like you and me, desperate to win.

Desperate, you can see it on our faces. You can see it on our faces from the prize task. We literally, everyone else is having a laugh and they cut to us when we describe our prize task and we're the two most serious men I've ever seen. And throwing money at it, absolutely perfecting. She didn't both got zero points. I'm being so desperate. Because Liz is not desperate at all. She's an instinct player, right? So

they asked her for that for the wow what is the greatest thing. And she's like, yeah, bang that fine. And she does it with all the tasks as well. She's not sat there going, okay, what am I going to do? What's my strategy? She just does it. And that's what makes her very cool. Yes. Um, Lou brought in a heart in a jar, which of course she did. It, the most Lou Sanders prize you could possibly bring in. Um, I don't even, what was Lou's point for that? She told a long story on the night about,

if you have a heart transplant, you take on the, you take on the personality of the person you get the heart from. Yeah, I can't remember. The weird thing is I'd really like with the might lose in my ball when I was in with the doctor and that she said we're going to have to remove your testicle and then she said if you've got any questions and the thing I really wanted to ask was am I allowed to get it back so I can use it on the price to ask I thought saying you know I'd give my right testicle to win the championship champion's test it died in the end I don't think it would you know I'd thought I would because I thought I could even mock that up you know I could get someone to make me a false one in a jar and pretend it's the real one.

But I thought I really didn't fit with the quest with the task, what the task is really. I don't know if it's my cancerous ball is the greatest. Medical science. It's a medical science, it really is the greatest thing. Yeah, I've been to testicles RMA, since I've written a book about testicles and what testicles do is amazing.

So, so, so I could have done that but, but yeah, so it's funny that she chose something out of a, but that's how much Tassmaster was on my mind. But even as I was being basically diagnosed with cancer, they had when they weren't sure what's cancer. I was struggling with the prize Tassmaster. I think that might have been the only thing that could have got the five points. I mean, if you sent it to space, then definitely, definitely. Bullock in space. Yeah, lose heart in a jar. I felt for low here because because it is only one episode, everything becomes suddenly very important. When you've got 10 episodes, you can afford to drop a price task and get one point and

just be relaxed and then enjoy the rest of it. But you felt, I felt for everyone when we were announcing our prizes and each task was coming up, I was like this, I mean, it's probably only me and you feel like this, we're gonna, this is everything now. So it was one point to Lou, two points for Kerry, three points for Lisa, four points for you Richard, and five points for me, and thank God for them. APPLAUSE OK, you're lying. Wow.

Wow, that is... The... Spent it out, Alex. Great! Yes! Is it? Yes! Yes, it is! Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, It really is. Wow. Is it? What do you think? Wow! It is the right to say! Bush!

Task one. Feed yourself a grape in the most elaborate way. The most elaborate self-feeding of a grape wins. You have one hour, your time starts now. This is sort of, I guess, there's a trope here. There's been not similar tasks, but there's, you know, there's certain frameworks of tasks. So we had a task where we had to do something with a chickpea, and it was presented in a similar way to the grape. And, you know, they've had various things in the past like this. A big creative one, so open-ended and the sort of task that I think

terrifies most people. Yeah. But I mean let's talk about you Richard. Yeah well I was I you know but I say I said in the studio that I was never you know that I wasn't good at these ones in the in the series. I disagree. I think they were my these are my strongest ones. He didn't he didn't judge them very kindly. I think the upside down task I did, I think correct. He judged very, very unfairly. And the, the disappearing to the vanishing task, which he didn't watch the first time. And then when it was shown the second time, he saw the mirror wobble. Everyone had gone, wow! I mean, what, what, what, what, and so you hadn't seen it. I thought we were quite good. So I don't think it's entirely fair, but I like the ones

that you get a bit of a chance to think about. And for me, this just came straight away, and I actually, because I was the last to do the task, and I said, oh, has anybody else made it into wine? I thought that might be almost the obvious way to go, a little bit lateral with it, and they went, oh no, no, no, no, so I knew that I found a different way to everyone else, and then I guess I just thought that it would be funny to try and make a fine wine out of one grape in half an hour or whatever we had an hour, half an hour.

It's great, I mean, it's really good. I mean, it was a sketch, wasn't it? Really? You just sort of wrote a sketch from scratch. It was great. You've got puns in there, but Pino Gregio, Domain DeTas Mastere. It was wonderful. Like I can see my feet were disgusting. And my feet were disgusting and there was nothing I could do about it. I feel like in the studio, there was a big, disgusted reaction from the audience at my feet, which I don't, didn't spot on the recording. I don't know if they've been kind to me and said, oh, we can't let the audience go. I think, I think you've remembered that unfairly on yourself there. I don't think there was. I think it cut back from that and then Greg started talking about how horrible your feet were. Right. Maybe. I think they are pretty horrible. So yeah, so no, but it was yeah, it was good

I knew with that one. I thought that's definitely gonna be okay that one I thought you know, I thought like I'm definitely four or five I think with that one before before I'd seen anyone else is really but again with with To contestants of this standard you never you never know what's going to come, but I was at least felt I'd done a good job with that one. Well, let's talk about the idea of feeding yourself a grape in the most elaborate way. Greg really got it in his head, that it was the actual feeding of the grape that had to be elaborate.

So there was a lot of people who did things around that like a you know set up, you know incredible things with You know lose sat in a bath dressed in gold and Alex was a chair Up Greg didn't seem to care about any of that. It was the actual act of defeating that he was obsessed with had to be elaborate Which I found really tricky to I mean we had a long argument about it in the studio Yes, I think I have to say mean we had a long argument about it in the studio. Yes, I think I Have been asking when we all ate it with them. We all it all went down our mouths We were all you know, it was all slipping down our throats if you want to boil it down that much

I think I think he's sort of correct, but I say I think like with Carries one, I feel like if there'd been a lot more stage than that and everything had properly linked. Yeah. Like if it had, I mean I guess that that Lisa's also this kind of heat problem and something wasn't it? But if it had been like, you know, even even as far as starting miles and miles away and then, but I think it just needed to be a bit more consistency to the story, a couple more legs. Yeah. And then a very satisfying drop into her mouth somehow, I think it was a bit of a... Well, let's talk about Kerry's, neighbor it up.

It got four points, which I am constantly surprised by, because I think you're right. I think it's, I think, well, there was a lot of discussion about Kerry being a sex worker in that sketch. That's all cut. Getting James to roll the grape, great, but then it literally just, it came down on the balloon and then went down the pipe, basically. It doesn't seem hugely elaborate and I don't think it had the impact on the night. And

so four points did seem a little generous, but at least the neck, the neck name, the grape gimp finally used publicly. And it's good to see James A. Castor, you know, chew on his way into the champion of champions despite being a being a being bottom. Second second bottom, I believe he was. Yeah. Let's let's talk about lose as well. This was, see, I would say this, this is elaborate. I the way I was thinking of it was imagine if you had to do all of those things before you had a grape every time.

Yes. That would be pretty elaborate. Lou was sat in a bath dressed in gold and Alex was dressed as a chair, a playing a harp, and then sent the grape down a line for Lou to eat. I think it's a harsh score, but here's what I'd say. Self-feeding was very specific as well. Right.

I think in lose case and Lisa's case, Alex fed them the grape. Yeah, possible. I mean, no, I think it's... No, come on Richard. I just fell to the nitty-gritty. I think pedantry has its place, Ed. Yeah, it does. Oh yeah, not what he's won apparently.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Fend off his place, and it's called the Taskmaster Podgaz. That's what we're here for. Kerry doesn't beat herself the grape. James A. Castofi's carry the grape. Alex Feeds slew the grape. Alex Feeds lees of the grape. Me? I alloo the grape. Alex Feats alleeza the grape. Me? I fed myself the grape. Dress is a big dog. I was a bit confused by yours Ed if I have to.

What are you confused about? Let me let me enlighten you, Rich. Well because it's not, well, it's not an elaborate way to feed a grape. It's a story about a dog on its last day of being a dog. I made all that up on the night of the studio. Yeah, but it's about a dog eating a grape. Imagine. That's not a labyrinth. Imagine. It is a labyrinth.

Imagine having to get a dog costume every time you wanted to eat a grape. That's a labyrinth, mate. I think you said it didn't play a policeman. I didn't feel it was the story of Ed Gamble. If you've made that clear, you said this is me and this is the only way This is by going through this scenario. Then I would say that's elaborate. I thought it seemed to be was a story about a Please don't eat him a grape. I didn't feel that. I didn't feel that was there was a piece of evidence I thought that was a tragedy not an elaborate thing. Well, I'll tell you this I came up with that so quickly

They were very surprised. I was sat there for maybe a minute going, okay, like a police system or come down a pipe, because obviously you all think of those things. And then I went, oh no, I'll dress up as a dog and dig it up that quickly. Probably quicker than you came up with a wine thing, and I still had that thought of like,

oh, that's probably a bit root one, I'm sure. Did anyone else do the dressing as a police dog and digging it up? I feel like I felt like it could have gone either way it might have flown but it did it did just get a baffled reaction but you know what I stand by it in a way. It's the kind of thing that someone who never watched Tarsmastor understood what the format of the thing was. If you tell me I person, I don't know what TASMASTER is, I've just been dragged off the street. I've been told to do this. That's what I'd expect them to come up with. No, it's the act of someone who knows TASMASTER back to front and was trying to do something

different and putting myself, people who've never seen TASMASTER before, and putting it down a pipe and eating it out of that. That's what they're doing. Come on, Richie, you know, very well. You know, very well. That was a risky and elite Taskmaster. I'd lost my mind. It was two points for Lou, two points for me,

somehow I felt like that was quite generous. Three points for Lisa, four points for Kerry and five points for you, Richard, well deserved five points. Thank you. And we should talk about Lisa's task outfit. Amazing. I mean, absolutely. This is why she's the true champion of champion. Really, really. I mean, I think it took us by such surprise in the studio. I mean, I think it took us by such surprise in the studio. And it's just, it's just, it's perfect human. So silly, but so well played by her and by Alex.

Yeah. Like if it, if I was in Alex's position, I'd be like, you can't be in on really laughing. And they play it so well, they're back and forth. And everyone was writing the studio like, I got used to it so quickly. I got used to it so quickly. I think she really pulled it off, but it's just such a genius little move from her. And I, you know, I spent ages working out what outfit

I was going to do and ended up wearing this ridiculous pale blue suit, like Dum and Dum and suit, which is supposed to be a riff on the double denim, but, you know, special dressed up for champion of champions. And I think think yeah, but people are gonna love this. Lisa walks in wearing a fake beard It is genius. It's absolutely and the understated nature of it is what makes it fantastic But she didn't even get a bonus point for that. Did she that that seems like if bonus points were made for anything It would be yeah the the hilarity of that. So it would be absolutely. Really, really good.

So I think a labra, it's on a string. It's being pulled by a system of police. I can feed it up if I've feed it through my bottom and suck it up, and then an hour can get it out of my mouth. That'll be a labra, yeah. I want to swing it at me. Hmm. It's quite elaborate, isn't it? Oh, he throppin' since Diary.

Swinging, he's a lover. Yeah, I do. Swinging's always a good idea, isn't it Alex? Oh. Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha. Hi icons, it's Danny Pellegrino from the Pop Culture Podcast, everything iconic, and I love Nordstrom.

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2022 and May 2023. Potential savings will vary. This account's not available in all safe and situations. Task 2. Cut holes in and create a scene in this board so that when you and Alex stick parts of your body through the holes, it looks wonderful. Most wonderful scene wins. You have 20 minutes your time starts now. I'm gonna say this, I don't, I think the majority of us did not cover ourselves in glory here. I don't like to say, but you know, I completely, there's a couple of tasks that I didn't listen to. The task. Yeah. Or I didn't understand the task at all. I have no memory of it having to be something wonderful. But I just actually no memory of that at all,

and certainly did not attempt to make something wonderful. And I think I was just, I just thought, I know I'm gonna be shit at this. I know this is absolutely beyond my capabilities. And so I just, but I thought, right, I'm just gonna go for it. I threw myself in to just starting painting, and then had, had, had, oh, oh, but an octopus.

I can say you were painting already and then thought about doing an octopus. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know what I was doing. I was, it was almost like the same as you just lying down and dying. Yeah. After nights, I've been, I just thought, I don't know what I'm doing, but all I can do is throw myself into this, you know, with, and lacquerity and maybe try and get some paint on Alex's, especially all I could think of.

Well, I thought, I honestly thought yours was great, but I'm another person who didn't read the task properly and completely ignored the wonderful thing. And the spread, the octopus spray the ink over all of us. I thought it was so funny and you having the champion champion trophy. I thought, I thought it was really funny. And I mean, you got one point I I felt like that was a little harsh but that sums up the episode the fact that you got five points in the first task and then immediately back down to one point in this one. There was an amazing

moment as well where I think everyone was laying into yours for about 10 minutes. Then we finished, we went through everyone. I think I was the last person they were talking to. And then I went, anyway, let's move on. Let's talk about Richards. And now this one, we've already talked about Richards. Oh my god, that's how bad it was. I can't believe you forgot about talking about it. But I do, I do think it was harsh. I liked the octopus. I liked the little scene, but it was just the wonderful, it was the wonderful thing. It was wonderful. No, which carried really lent into, I think it was a really strong idea that she she probably read the task. She was thinking about it. She thought it's a wonderful world. She went through all the things that are in a wonderful world. But her representation of all the things in a wonderful world were like some horrific like Alice in

Wonderland twisted like bad acid trip. It was horrible. It was frightening. I mean, yeah, we didn't really get to the bottom of the bum face. No, bum face moose. No, we never heard about it. The flowers that could smell themselves. Yeah. Well, I think sort of amazing. I think based that on a bunch of noses, I think it was a pun, but sometimes you've got to stand back and think is the pun worth it when it's like the result of some sort of horrible Nazi science experiment. Yeah, she was unlucky that it didn't, it didn't, whatever was in her mind could have been amazing if she could have gone it down onto a huge piece of whatever that plasterboard, whatever that was. Yeah, it didn't translate onto canvas, but it's so much fun watching Greg absolutely take against something Kerry's done,

and then her getting genuinely angry. I have to calm her down at one point, I have to put my hands on her shoulder to be like, Kerry, don't attack him. Lose, I thought was genuinely quite wonderful. I think Lose, Lose wonder at nature, which she does have, she loves the natural world She loves animals and I think that came through in this the dolphin in the turtle

I love that it was just Alex and lose smiling Yeah Well, that is so nice the sun was great and I didn't I don't know if I appreciated it would be a Animation I don't suppose I did but it was because everything was slightly animated it looked like some kind of surrealist I don't suppose I did, but it was good. Because everything was slightly animated, it looked like some kind of surrealist film from the 1920s or something, where the sun was hands.

I thought that was beautiful. I thought if it had actually just been the sun with hands, I think that might, because there's leases wasn't like a very elaborate and only involved one body part and I think like everyone else kind of went and was beautifully drawn, but everyone else kind of went for multiple, at least.

Well, that's what I, the bit of the task I least. Well, that's what I am. The bit of the task I did read, Richard, that's what I understood we had to do because it says so that when you and Alex stick parts of your body through the holes, and Lisa obviously like really simplified it, it was just Alex sticking his leg through the hole. And she, I think she's got such a, she's got a real artistic flair, Lisa, because that simplicity and she knew she could paint that beautiful alpine scene. She called it the alpine darling. She's so funny, love it, perfect stuff from Lisa.

I can see why I got the five points. But you know, I did say Alex and you, so I feel like maybe, you know, sticking the tip in the corner. You didn't make that point on the night. Did you or I forgotten? Did you, did you raise that on the night? No, I think I, by this point in the record, Richard, I'd raised problems with every single thing that was happening because I knew it wasn't going well. So at this point, I was like, if they leave all of these in, I'm going to seem like the biggest prick of all time. And it's a lovely painting that Lisa's done. Just leave it.

It's supposed to be fun. And also I knew what was coming, so there's no point me complaining about anything. For me, it was between Lou and Leezard there, and Leezard got the five points, and Lou got the four points, so it does make sense. We not even talked about mine. And it was wonderful. So wonderful.

So wonderful. So obviously did the same as you I think. And I forgot about, well I didn't forget about the wonderful thing. I tried to justify it in the studio because I do think heavy metal is wonderful and I do think horror movies can be wonderful. What I just went for me fairly route one because of its parts of a body I thought how can you get the most parts of a body in. It's if there's loads of dismembered body parts, right? Yeah, surely

So I created a character called evil butcher Who dropped up a man that's why evil and Yeah, that's where I went I went and I the thing I was proud of myself with I know I can't really paint I don't know how to sort of incorporate loads of colors into things So I thought I just go with stark red on white. I thought that might work quite nicely. And I was proud of how much it stood out, and I think it's quite a funny thing to do, but it wasn't wonderful.

In hindsight, I wish I'd scored it differently, because I scored that round. I said yes. Yes. I think you were very generous to me. Yeah. So thank you for that. But Greg did say, I think Greg would have done exactly the same thing. No, he wouldn't have changed it because he wouldn't have changed his own opinion. I think it basically was right, but I think I maybe could have argued a bit more about the octopus.

You know, it was at least pressing. It was a necessity. It predicted the result of the contest, which is at least you all end up covering an ink. You and I was standing with him. Standing with him. Yeah. I think, yeah, I think one point maybe a little harsh for you. I think maybe two points with Kerry.

And I was happy with my three points, but I wouldn't have been surprised if I'd got two points. I'll put that out there. Okay. But it was one point for you, two points for Carrie, three points for me, four points for Lou and five points for Lisa. Wonderful. The words we're looking for. Right. Looking for wonderful. Do you see it in Lou's picture?

Okay. LAUGHTER Why is it so lovely? I mean, there is some wonder in there. LAUGHTER LAUGHTER LAUGHTER Why is it one of them? I mean, there is some wonder in there, I think. It's a dolphin, it's a turtle, it's a seahorse. Seahorse. I love watching seahorses in their natural habitat, like in their big lips.

LAUGHTER And then, does Einstein? I do think, for the first time, in the ones that have been revealed, there is an element of 100 in this picture They're it the fucking ears carry Task three get this duck into that pond the duck must be launched from behind this rope And you must stay behind this rope during its journey You may not move the rope or the pond. First this wins your time starts now.

Now, when I was presented with this task Richard, I genuinely, the thing that I did was pretty much the only thing I could think of. I had no idea that there would be another way of doing it. Yeah. It was, I think I put a huge amount of pressure on myself that day because it was one day. And hence, I did not really enjoy this. Which I think you can tell. There was no, I wasn't thinking outside the box at all. I just did the first thing.

And it's this horrible taskmaster thing that we talk about a lot on the podcast, where you get one idea You start doing it and you spend so long on it that you don't feel like you can back out of it You've got the sort of tele-edit in the back of your mind as well And you're thinking well, I can't just switch to something else now. I've got to do this I've got to make this work and this is what happened to me to the nth degree in this one There's so much something didn't even make it in obviously because I was doing it for

97 minutes and 9 seconds. I broke the director's new GoPro camera because he'd positioned it very politely and neatly next to the pond to get a shot of something going into the pond and as I walked past it, I just got angry and booted it into the pond. I went and found all those pipes which they'd obviously left, clearly left there to try and make someone do this. So I got the pipes and then I lined them all up and it was finished too far away from the pond and then there were some other pipes attached to the caravan that I had to find to use those. So they done that as well deliberately, not giving you enough pipes. I just absolutely lost my mind halfway through the delivery order arrived for lunch. So the crew are angry at me because they have to carry a big bag of Nando's past me half

an hour in. We're here for another hour. It was honestly heartbreaking. Well, the weird thing is, I did the same thing right so this was the only task that kind of slightly risk me ripping my stitches open and bleeding So I did the same thing I didn't find the extra ones I I had a quite a good crack in it, but I realized That I realized it was not possible because even if you had enough pipes you had to go uphill

Yeah, so there was and so I I asked that's the reason I came forth in this because I spent maybe 10 minutes Yeah trying to make 10-15 minutes trying to make this work before then spotting The key which is about the only time I've ever and it's quite it's quite obvious when you when you know it's there It's quite big isn't it when you're looking at the footage you can sort of see it dang well here's something I maintain Richard what I don't remember seeing that key so I didn't I didn't see it until like 15 no but I don't think the key was there for me if you look at if you look at the shots of me next to the statue, sometimes you can't even see the key, and then sometimes you can see a key,

but it looks like someone's drawn it in in post. I don't think, I think they only came up with the key thing after I've done my task. And Alex all denied that until the day he dies, but I think there was no key for me personally. That's getting into sort of conspiracy theory territory there. Well, there you go. This episode is clearly driven you mad.

Look, I think they must have seen how I did and thought, well, if Ed Gamble couldn't do this task, we're going to need to leave some pretty obvious clues around Hanga Keonali, you know? But, so I was the only one who found that. If I'd found it earlier, obviously, I would probably have won. But, so I was the only one who found that. If I found it earlier, obviously, I would probably have won.

But also, there was big, because I tried to put the duck inside the remote control car, so it would fall out. And that made it not, I don't know, they showed this again. And that made it just veer, that part of the reason it was veering off in a weird way, I think to begin with, is because I had the duck in like inside it,

I think in the mechanism. and then even when I got it It was very comic the way it veered off Like almost into the only into a space that it could only just fit I mean it was a make so that because I all that I could have just cleaned all the piping But but yeah, and again even if the first time I've got it actually properly working So it took me about four or five minutes to get it properly working and then the first time I got it down there It then got stuck right on the edge of the pond and obviously if I'd got it had gone in then which you you know In any other time it would have done then I would have got I think it probably one more point because I would yeah

I think Carrie was just like a minute ahead of me or something like that But yes, it was frustrating, but it was frustrating to finally scene the trick way to do something and it's, I'm still end up with two points. Yeah. Especially seeing Carrie just rolling that big fucking circle thing down there. I've got a few things to talk about here. Firstly, I saw the rap, probably not in this task. I think it was when I was filming a task earlier in the day,

or yeah, doing something I saw the rap in the caravan up against the window. And they use that rap in series 11, I think I'm right in saying. So I thought, oh, it's there is sometimes they put old things they use as like ornaments, or you know, like just set decoration. I was like, well, they won't want us to put old things they use as like ornaments or, you know, like just set decoration. I was like, well, they won't want us to use that

at any point because that would be, that would be reusing content. Apparently some of us are all right with that. So that annoyed me that you use that in the end. Obviously, there's a moment in my 97 minutes where the big whale that Kerry uses rolls out and nearly knocks my pipes over and I genuinely thought at that point Why didn't I just use this I could just put the duck on this and send it down there But I was already maybe 40 minutes in I was like I can't I've just got to keep going with this now But when you also thinking it had to be the duck because I think you were in that in the studio Maybe this isn't the show. I'd maybe arguing that things that had gone into the pond if the duck wasn't actually in the water, then it didn't count as the duck being in the pond. So if you had that in your mind,

then you wouldn't think, oh, I can't roll it down on a big tube, because then it's the tube in the water, not the... Because I was thinking that what I'd have to do would be attach the duck onto a rope and put it onto the wheel and send it down and hope that it rotates just at the moment sort of flick the duck into the pond and I stand by that Richard Kerry's duck was not in the pond. Kerry's duck was in a giant bobbin that happened to be a bit wet. Yeah, maybe, maybe you don't care to hear. I'd like as many points as I can get I would like to be I would like to got more than two for this one, but yeah, but especially given how much I risked my, I risked my health to do it.

You don't really see that. Yeah. I mean, yours yours was great. It was it did the job. Lose was genius. Yes. Lose was genius. Yes. Lose was simple. She worked out a good system.

I think she used pulleys for every single task in this episode. It was amazing because you can see her go through that thought process of obviously the duck needs to start here. It needs to get in that pond. I want to use this piece of rope. How do I do it? And I didn't even approach thinking about doing that. I thought it was brilliant. She absolutely smashed that.

That's proper, like the great egg race. That's like the proper version of this. There used to be a show called the Great Egg Race where boffins would do stuff like taskmaster, but with proper little mechanics. Do you think you can do that for that, Tony? I don't remember the way it's going. So they would make things work with,

you know, but to know, understand how a pulley works is beyond. Yeah. So even the thought of getting something that far by pulling it on a string through the dinner in a gene. So yeah, what did she get for this? Did she win this? She did. She got five points.

I mean, it took her, I think she went through a few systems. She got, she did it in 15 minutes, 45 seconds, which, you know, it's pretty impressive if you look at what I got. I thought she did absolutely amazingly. Leezer, I had a, Leezer sent Alex down on the trolley for a bit, which really made me laugh. I mean, because Lou says, will you take the duck down for me, Alex? And he says, no, obviously.

But then Leezer says, will you get in a trolley? And he says, yes, because it's the same thing. It's the same thing as him walking it down, but it's just funny to see him in the trolley. I do think that him driving the car down into the pond is the equivalent of him just taking it down. I agree with you. I think then I think this was probably not in the spirit of things. Not within the rules of it as well, really. But at least, but if you're wearing a little funny beard, why'd you do it? You can't wait for that, anything.

That's the thing. Who's going to argue with that? Nobody. And the good thing about this, after this was shown, obviously all bets were off for me, because I was like, well, there's an absolutely no way I'm winning this. I wasn't aware quite how close it was during the price task. So you can see I'm messing around in the price task so much. For the first time in Taskmaster, I think I'm not going to win.

There's no point. I'll just relax and have a nice time in 11 episodes of filming Taskmaster. But it was, I don't know what, and Alex didn't turn his engine on presumably because he thought maybe that would be more in the rules That seemed less like cheating if you just did it on his hand break all the way down I think the right person won here though. Yes, I think so Losers amazing. Yeah, yeah, five points for Lou four points for Kerry. I shouldn't get the duck in the pond Three points for Lise even though she was cheating for Kerry, even though she didn't get the duck in the pond. Three points for Lise, even though she was cheating.

Two points for you, Richard, which is a shame. I think you should have heard more. And I mean, I'll say it, I shouldn't have got one point. Yeah, I think that's fair. I think you shouldn't have got a point. Because that's the, even in the recent series, Gregg has become much more open. Like in our series, more than any other,

if people broke the rules, they all got zero points. Yes. And if people didn't do the task, they got zero points. And. And if people didn't do the task they got zero points. And now he's, you know, I think like if everyone's broken the rules, you should then judge it on who was the best given everyone broke the rules. But in our series there was a couple of tasks and the ones I did well in where everyone got zero. Yeah, everyone got zero.

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I thought this is just an engineer at his prime. Oh, we all did. It really did start to unravel after that initial feeling of hope. Yeah. All fun went out after the first hour. It was. What? How long was he now? 97 minutes and nine seconds. I mean, still didn't do it. It was what how long was he there 97 minutes and nine seconds It was 97 minutes of utterly wasted Nine I've never seen such a world just lose

And afterwards we genuinely angry I believe that was quite early on and I that's quite early on on the day That was before lunch so if you needed the dog thing explaining, that's why I did. But... LAUGHTER APPLAUSE People are all the stops, that. Live task. This, I think, is the most fun I have had doing a live task in Taskmaster.

Oh, yeah. This was so fun. I had, I mean, you can see me absolutely losing my mind. Everyone did something so funny. And the atmosphere in the studio is just incredible. I think this is a riff on one they've done in New Zealand Taskmaster series two, perhaps. The live task is pack either five bricks or five balloons into your bag. One at a time you must then walk across the stage and place your bag on the circle near

the Taskmaster who will guess whether you are packing bricks or balloons. If he guesses correctly, you are eliminated. If you deceive him, you qualify for another round. Most deceptions win. You will have 100 seconds to pack your bag. Turns out all of those rules about the next round and most deceptions win weren't needed at all. It ended in one round. It was the perfect ending to the whole episode. It was interesting they, they let it go. It could have gone on forever this as well. It was so lucky. It kind of, it could have just gone on and never ended. Yeah.

And they left in that they had a shot from above and you see me popping a balloon with a brick. Yeah. Which I think I was trying to make a joke that I'd messed up, but they left in the shot from above. So it looks like I'm trying some tricksy thing, where I'm trying to fool Greg. But I'm so bad at stuff like this. Even in series 9, anything we did the sort of shortest or longest bread stick thing as the final live task in series 9, and I went out straight away. I can't, I can't deceive people like that. I'm just out straight away. I can't I can't

deceive people like that. I'm just terrible at it. You can see it on my face. And everyone had a little a little technique. I think if I had a top 10 taskmaster lines or moments, Lisa saying I'm an interesting old lady would definitely be in there. It made me laugh so much. I thought everyone did great in this. It was really funny. It was fun watching it back. Well, I think I would say this upfront, I had an enormous advantage going last.

Hey, because you all fucked up. Yeah. Because I got to watch four people attempting it and realize what was a bad, I think the first three of you basically gave it away what you had, so I wrote them down. Do you think how do you think we did that? Well, I think just because,

well, especially Kerry tried much too hard to pretend it was the opposite to the extent it wasn't like a double bluff, it was just like, just, I just think, I knew not that I realized that lifting onto the podium was the point where you were really gonna get discovered because there's either a noise or there's not a noise. So I knew, I think like, was it the,

the Lisa who realized you could wheel it and that would help, but she still had to lift it up onto the thing. So I realized that I had to have it up and in a position where I could just put it down. Yes, ma'am. And then that would give you the best chance. I nearly completely fucked this one up and it would have been interesting if I had, because I didn't hear the five bloons.

I didn't listen to it properly or I didn't hear it properly. And for most of the time, I just had one, but I put one balloon in the thing I'm afraid to go. And then with about 20 seconds to go, realized everyone else was putting all of their bricks or all of their bloons in. And then had to very quickly fill the thing with bloons. And then you don't see it, but Greg, when I finally get there, Greg goes,

you were the only person I could hear, and I heard a lot of which was ridiculous, you popped a bloom, he didn't realise where it came from. But he said, he said he heard a lot of bloom noise. But he said, I heard a lot of bloom noise coming from you. But then he reasons that that was me doing that Yeah, in order to trick him and make a double bluff because how could I possibly made that much blue noise the reason I made

I learned a blue because I had to get all the 5 seconds and see all that because I thought it was just one balloon Because I think maybe I thought because there's, because this is gonna be five rounds. And so, you know, you've got lots of ammo in case you need them for later. I don't know why I thought that. So, it would have been interesting if I hadn't realized that,

had got, had correctly won, you know, won, and then opened my two case to reveal one balloon. Then we'd have to go again. Yeah, go again. Yeah, I mean mine looks like there's only two balloons in mine because I put three balloons in the zip compartment. Okay. I don't know why I did that, but there we go.

No idea why I did that. I thought my technique of picking up quickly and slamming down was good, so you couldn't really make out what the noise was. Yeah, I think you can sort of sit big because like with Brick, I just realized, so I realized you've got to make it look ambivalent, you've got to kind of do a bit of both.

I was sort of, I think you had to look realistic if it was straining for bricks, but you also had to look like you were trying to make the bricks not look like bricks. So you had to, you know, you had to have a bit of subtlety to the acting and do both, really, just to confuse him. But I think if you slam down a suitcase full of bricks, you'll still hear the sound

and it'll still bounce in a different way. So I think you have to place it. I think it had to be put, you know, the way I did it, I don't, but if I'd gone first, I don't think I would have thought of any of that. I would have just, you know, I would have tried to just carry it in my hand and then go, oh yeah, now I'm fucked on it because now I'm gonna put it on the table.

So I was, you know, I was pretty lucky and it was interesting you sort of, I thought, you sort of gave up once you'd failed yours, but you know, we could easily have been had another guy. Yeah, I could have gone again, but I think I forgot that because what they cut out as well as I had a, I had a sort of glorious tantrum where Greg guessed what was in mind. I was like, fuck it and just sort of threw the suitcase across the stage. I think I just completely lost my mind. Yeah. But it was a lot of fun.

It really was. And Rich, that means that you were crowned champion of champions and it because it was only five points. It was only five it was only five points there weren't four points three points two points one point. That I think I mean I'm I think I'm right in saying whoever won this one the episode right yeah well I think I realized that before I said to Alex which again was cut out I said so you mean everything else we did this episode yeah. to Alex, which again was cut out, I said, so you mean everything else we did at this episode? Yeah. It's completely... This all just comes down to who's the best at pretending to carry some balloons.

So, it's, yeah, I mean, in a sense, I mean, it's nice to win and it's nice that you came last. Yes. I would still much rather, and I'm sure everyone who watches the show as well would much rather We'd had at least two episodes, but I feel like it would be If it was two episodes a nude one you'd go, okay, well that you know, I feel like but equally if it'd been two episodes I wouldn't have won so I'm glad it was so sort of saying Basically that it means nothing and you can't really put yourself champion of champions because it was only one episode.

Is that what we're saying? I'm saying, I don't even, I think you still call yourself champion of champions and that will go down in history. I think, and no one will know when they look back at the records, how it was. I think the only thing you can say is if you came last in the champion of champions that you're definitely the worst of the champions.

Myself and Bob Mortimer, thank you for your compliment. That was the only thing that gave me some rest by... We were talking, we were, we went through the old champion of champions on this podcast and then I remember that Bob Mortimer came last. I went, yeah, I suppose I am a bit like a Bob Mortimer. I'm still up parroting, you know. I guess I am a national treasure. LAUGHTER MUSIC Richard, thank you very much for coming back on the podcast.

And before you ask, no, this does not mean that you now host The Toss Master Podcast. No matter how many times you win, I know you've beaten me, you've bested me, but I will continue to host. We don't have any emails, obviously, because it's a big secret that you won, and the winner is Cap Seeker. But after the Champion of Champions episode went out, they announced the lineup for the

next full taskmaster series. Oh, yeah. I'll read you the lineup, and we can have a discussion about it, and maybe have a little prediction of who's going to win. Okay, here we go. Dario Brian great Fern Brady. Oh, yeah, very good. Yeah, John Kerns. Oh great. Brilliant. Munyachawa. Yeah, and Sarah Millican Big we're talking there's big hitters in there.

This is a big lineup, I think. I'm very excited to see this lineup. Do you have any instincts straight away? This is the first time you're hearing it as to who might do well, who might lose their mind, you know. Oh, it's hard. I think, you know, I think Fern Brady might be really good. Yeah.

I really like Fern Brady. She's very, no nonsense, I think Fern Brady might be really good. Yeah. I'd have a fit, I really like Fern Brady. She's very, no nonsense, I'm very funny, but she's smart as anything. John, John Cans is one of my absolute favorite comedians. I don't know if he'll be good at taskmaster. I'll enjoy watching John have a breakdown. I think there might be a few of those. When he loses his mind.

Yeah, I think he'll be the star of it. I think he might be a sort of Mike Wozniak figure. I hope so, because he deserves to be. It's absolutely amazing. Yeah. Yeah, I think Fern, I think Tara, he's so smart, isn't he? But Willie, Willie B. Willie B. Get at Taskmaster's Sarah, and then yeah. The thing I'd say for Munya being a very good

Taskmaster contestant is he turns around like topical sketches, videos, songs, with superhuman speed. That is true. That is true. So he could be very good at those creative ones. I don't think Sarah is going to get it. I think I'm going to go for Furn over. I can see Furn having absolute dedication to it in quite a scary way. Definitely. Yeah.

Richard, thank you very much for coming back on the podcast. We, of course, always ask our guests to rate their experience on the podcast between one and five in the style of the Taskmaster. You've been on it before. You know how to do this. I do. This has been a special episode though. How would you rate your experience on last month's podcast? I've been looking forward to this more than winning. I would go first saying this is the greatest day of my life. Not winning champion of champions, but getting to do your podcast with me coming first than you coming last. It's just like, I couldn't have asked for a greater gift.

If I could give it 10 stars, I would give it 10 stars. If I'm only allowed to give it five, I'll give it five. I'll give it five. Let's give it 10 stars. Well, you're the champion of champions. You can restructure the point system. You go for it. 10. 10. Thank you very much. Well, there we go. That was painful at times for me, but I had a lot of fun talking to Richard.

Of course, I'd completely forgotten about the possibility of champion of champions, of champions of champions. It's going to be devastating when Richard does that. I mean, the fact that I now, there's no reason for me to ever do Taskmaster again. That's the real shame. We didn't talk about that. I'm very upset about that. It's sort of bittersweet doing one episode of Champion of Champions thinking, this is it, this is my last chance to do Taskmaster. And I absolutely hoofed it up.

But thank you very much to everyone who works on Taskmaster. It was a really fun episode to do. All of the other contestants contestants fantastic, well done, and well done to Richard Herring for being the champion of champions. You know what Richard does. You go and check out his stuff. He does about 80 podcasts. He's absolutely brilliant. Go and listen to them. He's also apparently really good at Tarthman. We will return next week. We've got two more episodes of Series 6 to talk about and then We will return next week. We've got two more episodes of series six to talk about and then we'll keep on rolling. We've got seven, eight, we've got nine

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