Taskmaster The Podcast - Ep 118 - Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem - S8 Ep.9

Episode Date: February 16, 2023

Ed is joined by a very special guest this week, it's none other than Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem! Rebecca is a huge TM fan and chats about her time in the house and why she wants to be on a full series! They talk bouncy balls, food dust and prize tasks, Rebecca is still looking for hers... Enjoy, your time starts now! Find out about all things Self Esteem here: www.selfesteem.loveWatch all of Taskmaster on All 4www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmasterVisit 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.

Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble, the host of it. We are of course talking about Series 8 still. Series 8, Episode 9 though, we're edging towards the end of this series, edging closer and closer towards the 10 weeks which I've been dreading talking about myself on Taskmaster and I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who think I probably am not dreading that because of my ego but I am dreading it, trust me. But today we're talking about series 8 episode 9 with the brilliant Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Estek.a. Self Esteem. Brilliant musician, brilliant performer,

and of course, brilliant former Taskmaster contestant in the most recent Taskmaster New Year's Treat. Very much looking forward to talking to Rebecca. She is, I am assured, a Taskmaster mega fan. So it's going to be a good episode. Taskmaster Series 8, Episode 9, as discussed with Rebecca Lucy Taylor, a.k.a. So it's going to be a good episode. Taskmaster series eight, episode nine, as discussed with Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem. Welcome Rebecca to the Taskmaster podcast.

Yay. Yay. I love Taskmaster so much. This is perfect. You were just saying before we started recording, you genuinely love Taskmaster so much. this is perfect you were just saying before we started recording you genuinely love taskmaster so much it was you know last year i had this sort of everything i ever wanted to happen happened to me a year and yeah all these cool you know all these big music milestone things but i honestly the best thing about last year was doing taskmaster by by a massive margin so i don't know maybe i'm in the wrong game ultimately but all roads led me to being in the new year's special and I had the time of my life I think it's what we were talking about

before as well that um it may feel like the best thing because it's it's such a departure from what you normally do and it's just like it was just like a couple of days of extreme fun um if you had to do it every day of the week it might be it might be more of that's true exactly that yeah i go on about it like i've just literally been saying like you can reach your goals and then your goals the dream becomes work it's like god really played a number on us because you can't be happy for long no matter what but so yeah if i had to professionally do taskmaster i think i'd i think i would really love it, but yeah, eventually I'll be like, fuck this. But I just love it. I was messaging the bloody director being like,

thank you so much. It spiritually reconnected me to my fundamental ethics of life, which is just be daft and commit to being daft. That's so important to me and it's like who i is the fabric of my very being so thank you taskmaster you saved me a few weeks on therapy yeah it's amazing isn't it because it is it on the surface it's such a silly thing but that's it's so important to just be dumb and mess around quite a lot because otherwise

what sort of person do you become and also like ultimately it's just life is daft yeah like there's no more reason to about there's no more reason for me to like oh god i don't know do something that's like feels very important and looks amazing on instagram or like earns me money there's no i should also just be bouncing a bouncy ball into a bucket. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Ultimately we still, the planet is going to die and we're going to go anyway.

Something like that. Anyway, I'm working on my, my taskmaster theory of life, but, but it did bit for me, it really did. Thank you.

Maybe it is a good, it's, it's a good sort of new therapy technique is doing taskmaster. Maybe, maybe more people should employ it. They should use the house in the off season to have people come in and just work through some stuff. Yeah, you could put up the prices very high

and get like stressed out, burnt out businessmen to go and do some bouncy balls and shaking hands with a rubber glove full of summit and come out and realise that it doesn't matter if you don't meet that deadline. You're all going to die anyway. It could turn into a cult pretty quickly, I think. I can see Alex as some sort of bizarre cult leader.

And I do think he'd be one of them that misuses that power. Yeah, I agree. I completely agree. We should be careful with this. do you have any favourite contestants or series from the history of Taskmaster before you had an opportunity to take part oh Rylan oh really

yeah he's just so he's the second coming I'm being very religion based so far I think he's the second coming. I'm being very religion-based so far, but I think he's the second coming of Christ Almighty. I think you might be right, actually. I think you might be right. I know, he's just perfect.

He's such a beautiful man. He's so funny. He's so clever. I just adore him. And him on Taskmaster was just like everything I wanted. Yeah, as soon as his outfit was revealed, the Greg head on his crotch, I thought, great. I was immediately annoyed we didn't get Ryland for a full series.

Yeah, that was, yeah, same. See, this is why my agenda ultimately is, why can't they get, why aren't us humble celebrities allowed to do it? Right, I know, they have to stick to comedians but you never know, they might do a sort of a redux of the New Year's treats and you might get another opportunity. Oh man, I said it so many times when I was there to the point where Alex was just like, you can tell he was just like, just stop saying it, it's a rule, like shut up. I even played a show, I played a show in Bognor Regis in January, obviously. And I have, like, text behind me often,

and they're always, like, these sort of statements or poetic things I've written or political things. And my tour manager is always like, what do you want on the screen this week kind of thing. And I was like, full season of Taskmaster when? And even that didn't work. So I've done all I can. The people of Bognor Regis are yet to start the full campaign. Yeah.

Everyone was like, you're literally trolling Alex at this point. I was like, I'll commit to that for the rest of my life. How was that day in the Taskmaster house? Because I got to do a full series. It was exciting doing that first day. And then I was like was like right but at least I've got all these other days left but that that one day were you just desperately trying to cling on to every single moment and commit it to memory. Yeah it was really like yeah I felt very blue-balled by the whole thing it was like I've only just got into my stride

here and now I'm leaving and we did because you do, I think we did six and only three get shown. Is that how they do it in the full series as well? Yeah, maybe not that many. I think they probably try and pack in more on a one day. So when I did Champion of Champions, I think we did six in a day. And that felt like that. It was like, I don't think I've excelled here

and I need another day to really get into my stride. I was concerned, but then I also thought, look, just give it, you know, it's the universe. My main memory from that day though was the very first task I did was and it didn't get used was rubber gloves through a fence and each rubber glove was filled with something

and you had to touch the glove and guess what it was filled with but you could only touch it you could only touch it for 10 seconds or something and then the rest of the time you can, but you could only touch it. I think it was something like, you can only touch it for 10 seconds or something. And then the rest of the time you can't use your hands to touch it. So I was like biting the rubber gloves,

which is like minging, but fine. And, but it was really hard to figure it out. But then, and they were also like, some were high up, some were low down, some were in the middle. So they were all different. And it got, I got to the end of the fence and the hand was really low.

So I was on my hands and knees, like sucking off a rubber glove. different and it got I got to the end of the fence the hand was really low so as on my hands and knees like sucking off a rubber glove I looked at was like five male you know men with cameras like pointing down at me on my hands and knees like sucking a glove off and I thought taskmaster have not thought this through so I wasn't surprised that one didn't get you once we got through that one I thought there we go um what's uh what was your favorite task i mean it's obviously not the sucking off well yeah the rubber gloves i hated the painting because i just couldn't i could not get my like i'm like a drummer and everything

right so like everyone's my whole life has been like oh you'll find driving easy or you like coordination's fine because yeah the drums is like the ultimate coordination or whatever but i can't drive a car and i could not figure out that the mirror and the paint and the canvas i just could not and i felt really daft and i really sorry this wasn't your question was it no that's fine i i love saying what's your favorite and you immediately list your least favorites and i was also worried because also my one of my other flaws is i can't do maths like at all like truly numbers like the number eight looks like the set eight and six are the same to me i can't like it's just like it's been a difficult life and um with the the dots trying to count the dots i still got a system but it did involve like counting yeah and adding and unless i could do it really visually i can't do it so i wrote like 17

yeah in a row and was adding it like that and i thought this is because it's one of my my fears is people think i'm like stupid and i'm you know everything I do is to like prove that I'm very smart or whatever and then I was like and on national television I've written 17 down like 20 times and that's how I'm adding it up but with that one as well I mean I completely agree with you I'm terrible at that sort of thing and then there was all the other stuff to do having to go to the door and you know put on various things and, you know, start speaking in silly voices. I think I would have been bad at that task if it was just count the dots on a piece of paper.

You have 10 minutes without anything else in the way. Yes, same. That would have been gripping telly enough. Yeah, especially with Vorderman in the mix. I know, God, don't get me started on Carol. I'm obsessed. But my favourite, what was my favourite? Oh, I loved the pellets

because obviously I excelled there. You did very, very well in the pellets. There was a lot of incredible manoeuvres to get those pellets into the big bowl. It went for that, it's up there with one of my highest achievements. It's amazing what people react to as well

because you never envisage a situation where people are going to cheer cart pellets going into a bowl no but that's

the beauty of Taskmaster it's like that is as important as like the World Cup like penalty shootout like it does

the same physiologically to your body yeah let's start talking about this episode in series 8, series 8 episode 9 getting towards the end of the series now I'm a big Lou Sanders fan big fan of her

she's so there's like an inner peace to that woman i think i i that is that's that's an interesting way to describe lou uh as someone who's also obviously a big blue sanders fan and uh and a friend of lou inner peace is certainly not something i would level at lou i'd say outer chaos Chaos. Well, yeah, but no. I see it. Yeah. It's the yin and yang.

You can't have the inner peace Lou has without the Outer Chaos. Right, okay. Interesting, yeah. Well, let's see how much inner peace we can get from the prize task, which is Best Form of Protection. This is Alex dangling.

I mean, he occasionally just dangles, you know, some innuendo based things in the prize tasks and then hopes that people won't bite I think he can't help himself because the man is sex incarnate

it's one of the last men on the planet I'm like fine with it about horny It's one of the last men on the planet I'm like fine with it. Yeah. About, I like glasses but horny. This is the prize task that eventually led to the rubber gloves low down on a fence that you had to squirt down a deal with. Yeah, it was like, Sasha's team's coming on, I've got an idea. I mean it's such a fantastic stage name for entering Taskmaster as well.

It's the absolute antithesis of what anyone expects when they enter Taskmaster. Well, yeah. I've always thought, why did I call it that? I should have just called it my name and then it all made sense finally. It was best form of protection. Let's talk about Joe Thomas first, because throughout this series, I think Joe's prize tusks have broadly been pretty bad.

Yeah, they've normally been pretty straightforward. I'll use the example again. That's his shtick though, right? Well, no, I don't think it is. The shtick would suggest that he thinks about it. I don't think he thought about it at all. You know, bring the best see-through thing, and he brought a window. I just don't think he thought about it at all you know see bring the best see-through thing and he brought a window i just don't think he'd considered that the prize task is a very important part of every episode and he thought it would just be rushed through but i mean as as you

found out the prize task quite often goes on for about half an hour 40 minutes in the studio you know what as well i got so smashed after taskmaster with carol vorderman to the point where I'm like, I'm gonna drink less. One of them nights where you're like, I'm gonna start thinking about this. And I can't find my prize task, my ashtray. I think I just lost it. So there's like a piece of history out there.

Somewhere in the studio. Yeah, somewhere in the studio. I don't want to think about it too much because in the studio. Yeah, somewhere in the studio. I don't want to think about it too much because if I look for it, I might find it. But I'm just like, you know, when you've been drunk and then you're like, oh, I haven't seen that since then. So, yeah.

Anyway. I don't think you should find it. I think it's lovely to have a sort of, well, not a physical reminder, but a lack of physical reminder of a night with Carol Vorderman getting smashed. Exactly. And also, it should have gone to Mo Farah anyway if we were being by the book because he won.

Yeah. Because no one ever actually takes everything from people. No. I wonder if anyone actually has. That's a good question to maybe ask Alex in the future because obviously they do say when you bring in the prize tasks, the person who wins can take that home if they want they can claim all of those prizes legally legally it's a legal it's a legal requirement um but i'm not i'm not sure if anyone actually does but you know maybe maybe mo farah did it

maybe you took your ashtray i'm gonna let's let's we just decide that and then i can stop feeling sad about my own uh my lack of self-control. Have you ever done House of Games? I have, yeah. Well, when I did it, I was on it with Val McDermott, who is a crime writer. Yes. And a massive House of Games fan. And obviously, like, she just smashed it, like, every day.

Yeah. But there was a bit where I'm going on about how much I wanted the dartboard from my dad. And Richard was really going like, let's try and get this dartboard for Andy Taylor. And I sent my dad's name on BBC Two and stuff. It was great. And in the studio, I didn't think about it. And then Val just wiped the floor with me and won the dartboard. And then when it aired, everyone was on Twitter going, oh my God, Val should have just given you the dartboard. And I realised the culture at house of games is you're not that precious if you know if someone wants something you just give it yes yeah val mcdermott took every single yeah

val's not having that every single thing joe's prize task uh where he so best form of protection he brings in what he claims to be a voucher for access to a bunker. Yes. Now, I think in his mind, what he's brought in is if there's an apocalypse, then you can take that voucher and you can go to the bunker and you can live there. But I'm pretty sure it's just a ticket to go and look at a bunker, right? So it is a real bunker, because I thought, has he done some graphic design here?

Yeah. And invented a real bunker because I thought, has he done some graphic design here? Yeah. And invented a fictional bunker. But no, it is an actual place you can go. Yes, I think it is a bunker. But I don't think what he had was access to a bunker within an apocalyptic situation, which is what he was suggesting. I think it's just like a day out. Yeah, he's got a ticket for Madame Tussauds.

Yeah, exactly. Which is probably as good as a bunker when it comes down to it. Yeah. What a logical linear man. Yes, very logical linear man and genuinely an odd man, a fantastic man. But I don't know if you've ever had the pleasure, but he keeps his eyes closed when he meets you. That lad, I saw one, you know, a handful of experiences where you've been at something and I've looked at him and I thought, have I got off with you?

And I haven't. But he just reminds me of someone I have got off with and I was thinking, I didn't realise I recognised him because of the telly. Yeah. I thought, hang on a minute, have I got off with you? It happens a lot of comedy things for me, to be fair but um but yeah I guess Joe's got that look right I'm sure most people would probably look at Joe and think maybe I have maybe I've got off with you

at some point he looks like a brother's mate yeah yeah so I did uh so my only I've never met him but I did look at him weird once yeah for a bit too long well he won't remember that because he is a professional a lot of men in comedy can vouch for that experience for me i really like people who think like that because it's so far far removed from how i think yeah i bet he goes on holiday and relaxes i don't know you know i can't also i don't know the man yeah just basing this on his bunker ticket. Yeah, you based it all on the bunker ticket. I would think he goes on holiday, checks into a hotel,

has a slightly awkward moment with the receptionist and then can't stop thinking about it for two weeks. Okay, fair. That is also true. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, I got them all wrong. He goes on holiday and thinks about that

um sean gibson who is just fantastic on this series uh brings in uh some sweaty eggs to protect yourself from from people sitting next to you on the train um is that protection are you protecting yourself it's subjective though isn't? Because if my stomach was rumbling and then I smell eggs, this is what I thought. Would that be an off-putting smell ultimately? Are eggs always a bad smell? But in the right environment, with the right conditions, the right thing, you know, the right context.

Does an egg smell all right? Yeah, there's stinky, sweaty eggs in a little box. I mean, I guess Sian was thinking about most people wouldn't want to sit next to you, but she hadn't taken you into account. Me and other hungry people on that very train. So if you were on a train and there was a few empty seats knocking around

and Sian was on there and opened a box of sweaty eggs and you were hungry, would you go and sit next to Sian to be closer to the egg no that's not what I'm saying what I mean is we're talking about protection and a nine you know this is a 98 proof thing but there's going to be that two percent of people that find eggs if they're hungry enough they're not a bad smell yeah okay I see they get off the train and go and buy some eggs and eat them. Yeah. Well, then that's protection. You're still not going to sit next to someone

if they're getting off the train to buy some sweaty eggs. Or if someone's hungry enough and weird enough, they might come and try and get your eggs. Yeah. Sorry. I just wanted her to be safe. It's the opposite of protection. It's the opposite of protection.

That's seduction. Also, I don't know, it's not full protection, is it? Because I think if we're following the logic that it's an annoying and horrible thing to do, having the eggs on the train, I think people would think you're awful and be annoyed with you. And I don't see you as being protected then. No, that just, yeah, exactly that. You're the stinky egg lady. So it doesn't work in three ways. Yeah. Everyone would just be, you know. I'm going to punch the stinky egg lady. Yeah. Everyone would just be, you know. I'm going to punch that stinky egg lady for ruining my train. Do you know what I mean?

She hasn't thought this through. She has not thought this through. Beautiful woman, not thinking. Yeah. That's bloody women. Everyone would be tweeting, the lady from car share's got some sweaty eggs on the train. It's absolutely disgraceful.

Yeah. Get her cancelled for that. Yeah, get her cancelled for the eggs. This is backfired massively. absolutely disgraceful. Yeah. Get her cancelled for that. Yeah. Get her cancelled for the eggs. This is backfired massively.

Ian Sterling brings in a novelty sumo wrestler suit. Okay. I don't think... This gets four points. And look, we love Ian on this podcast, but I think this is massively overscored. I don't think this is a good form of protection at all.

No. And again, the annoying... Those people that do wear those suits, a good form of protection at all. No. And again, if the, the, the annoy, you know, those people that do wear those suits, it's, it's never,

it's always annoying, isn't it? So it's just, again, it's, it's not protective. It just makes people annoyed by, it's just giving, it's giving stag do.

Yes. How often would you say you cross paths with someone wearing a novelty inflatable sumo suit like in city centers on friday nights you know yeah yeah where do you where have you come across them taskmaster okay apart from taskmaster just like that the standard of the suit it just yeah it was just it was making me feel like fresh as week realness and i didn't like it yeah i see what you mean also i think that's actually a better thing to wear or or do if you don't want anyone to sit next to you on a train exactly if you if you team that with the eggs

would you see the eggs going in the soup maybe one one one yeah someone in a novelty sumo suit eating a sweaty egg on a train there's no way i'm going too many things there i've got it i've got to get the professionals in i i'm not a huge fan of anything that's completely off the rack uh and they've just they've just googled something and i did it a few times myself um you know i brought in a rude a rude gnome with a garden gnome with an erection um or a big wheelbarrow no i didn't have that already and i didn't craft it myself uh which you know that would have been acceptable um uh so yeah anything off the rack i'm never really a fan of and i prefer things like like the sweaty eggs you know where someone's thought about it. A bit more concept.

Yeah. I mean, so you can never accuse Paul Sinner of taking this straight off the rack, a pink onesie with the Sinner man written on the back. What was his reasoning again? I think it's just being protected from people talking to him, I think. Or just from the cold. Yeah, from the cold.

He said it was worked on multiple levels, but it didn't look like it could protect you from the cold. Yeah, from the cold. He said it was worked on multiple levels, but it didn't look like it could protect you from the cold at all. It looked quite thin. Yeah. And I don't think it would protect you from people... It was not a high-grade cap. Yeah, people thinking you're a bit of a knob, to be honest. But I love Paul.

I mean, just the idea of him wearing that made me laugh. Yeah. I'm sad we didn't see that. Yeah, because he's not a flashy guy, as evidenced by his Taskmaster outfit, which is literally just pyjamas and a very, very sad dressing gown. Male dressing gowns.

Something about that as a concept. Don't like it. You don't like the idea of men wearing a dressing gown? No. Really makes me uncomfortable. I need to look into that. Yeah, I wonder what it is about it that makes you feel uncomfortable. I don't personally own a dressing gown, but sometimes I think,

yeah, I should get myself a dressing gown. But now you've said that, I think I'm going to avoid it. No, no. No. No, I mean, it's up to you, but... Sorry, let's not. I've just got to think about that. It's not the forum.

Yeah, you've got to... I mean, this is what the Taskmaster podcast is good for. It just raises some issues with people that they need to look into at a later date. I told you. I told you. It's like the whole Taskmaster premise really puts you through it existentially in a good way.

But nothing can beat Lou's prize, which... See, there you go. Yeah, Lou's done a few compound prizes in in this series where she's just really gone for it she's really thought about it and she's just added as many things she can into it so it's sort of waterproof um that's not supposed to be a pun on this um but this is where she's really hit gold with this is the rubber macintosh with the beekeeper's hat it's got a prayer on it garlic garlic across, washing up gloves. And she didn't put a Johnny on it because she wanted to be classy. Well,

that's what I mean. She's just a woman within a piece knows not to put a Johnny on. Hang on. Not a sentence I thought we'd hear today. Well, that's Tashmaster. Yeah, obviously it was great. It was perfect. Logic.

Logic, execution great. It was, yeah. And silly as well. It had all of the hallmarks of a good Taskmaster prize task. That won, right? It did. That got five points. But it was a very high scoring round.

Sometimes Greg's in a generous mood. Did you feel like when you did Taskmaster, he was in a generous mood that day? No, he was quite to the book. Yeah. I think so, yeah. I can't remember. I think he was very, you know,

he was generous to Carol, but who wouldn't be? Carol's a national treasure. She is. She deserved it as well. Yeah, she deserved it, absolutely. It was five points for Lou, four points for Paul and for Ian for that bloody sumo suit,

three points to Sian and three points to Joe. So it's no one-pointers, even though Joe brought in a voucher. And we spoke to Alex about vouchers last week and he says he doesn't like it when people bring in vouchers because the whole point of the prize task is at the end someone can go up and interact with all of the

prizes and you can't really interact with a voucher not really on mine they were like something Greg would be surprised you've got and I actually struggled and I was like I don't know I have nothing surprising about me and I nicked an apron so i was like i'll just take the taskmaster

apron be like you're surprised i'm a thief they were like no we've had people do that a lot and so yeah yeah there's a lot of it's hard but voucher is a real cop-out yeah voucher is a complete cop-out but still better than a window. Paul Sinhart, what is your brilliant form of protection that you've brought with you? At the end of every series of The Chase, they used to give us a big luxury hamper, but one series, they decided to give us this.

There we go. There's only one of these in the world, because on the back of it, it says... Cinnamon. Number one, it protects you from the cold. Number two, it protects you from getting high temperatures. Number three, it protects you from having children, because no-one will fuck you. I can't... Yeah, would you...?

No, no, I wouldn't yeah would you no no I wouldn't task one bounce one of these balls the most times so that it lands in the bin after propelling the ball you may not touch or strike it

on its way to that bin most bounces between propulsion and that bin wins you must use the ball you touch first you have 20 minutes

your time starts now it's a good task this one I think really use the ball you touch first you have 20 minutes your time starts now it's a good task this one i think really good the ball you touch first angle genius yeah i mean it really punishes people who don't read the task properly which which i like because i do read the task properly yes exactly me too uh would would you have ever got to the point that lou and sean did with the working out how to attach the ball to the thing and then keep bouncing it? Do you think you would have got

that? I don't think so. I don't. Well, I think when I went on it, I felt like lateral thinking, you know, I was quite excited about that because I feel like I can do that. But there wasn't a lot of opportunities to think outside the box really with my tasks. Yeah, they were pretty straightforward I get a bit of a thrill when people do and it works um so yeah it's hard to know and I I didn't I couldn't be sure that was going to be allowed because what's the definition of bounce exactly it's a trick sometimes you just you've just got to go all in and try something out and then try and argue it in the studio but yeah i i think

this works i'm very very happy that that they managed to get away with it um it was just a case of doing it faster for sean if she if she'd worked it out faster and bounced faster and used all the time i think i think she would have won it yeah but surely the, it's an assisted bouncing, isn't it? It is an assisted bouncing. But I suppose, yeah. No, I think it works, and obviously it didn't. I'm just trying to really reconcile whether or not. If you were in the studio and someone else did that,

say if Vaud has used the fishing net a la Sian, would you have backed her on it or would you have gone after her and said that she was propelling it multiple times and that she wasn't technically bouncing it? That's a bad example because I would defend any of Carol's choices. But if it was Greg James,

let's say, we would have gone, come on now, that's not fair. Very fickle with my life. So your interpretation of the rules is based on who may be breaking them. Yeah. In general, across the board in life.

So if it's Vorda's doing that, absolutely fine. Even if she's committing a crime, if she murders someone during it, fine, well done borders greg james is you're unleashing yeah yeah um farrah oh it would be hard because he's so cute but no he also i yeah i don't know i'd have it be difficult, but I think I would still challenge it. Still, you've got to challenge Sir Mo Farah.

And then, De Moldenberg, what are you doing there? Oh, man. No, I'd be lenient, for sure. More lenient. But I probably would challenge. No one would get the pass that Vauders gets. Yeah. I can't tell you how much I love that woman.

She's amazing. She's fantastic. She's great. So Lou and Sian did very well. I love the fishing net that Sian used. I think that was probably the best way of doing it and she should have just discovered it earlier. And obviously Lou's bouncing it on a piece of string

and absolutely loving it, using the hollow plastic ball. Genius move. And then the men just just go steaming straight in without really thinking about it um at least ian realizes that he can test the balls before he touches one which feels like a key thing to do oh yeah how does he do that oh he just doesn't touch them knocks him yeah not yeah the books, knocks them on the floor, goes with the bouncy ball, which is smart,

and then goes to the hallway. And that feels like a good thing to do, to have that distance in a contained area. Yes, a controlled environment for the bouncing. Although I did like the... Was it the cinema man who did the off the roof? Yes, he goes off the roof. I mean, all of Paul's things that he does in this show are logical and they do make sense.

But the main issue with them is it's Paul doing them. That's the problem here. Yeah, I know. That's very much the noise. But I just really, I really, I love the technique to get those bounces. And he seems over the moon to get nine bounces. Yeah. Yeah.

I smell what he's stepping in for sure, but yeah. I've never heard that phrase before and it's immediately going in my lexicon. There we go. I smell what he's stepping in. Fantastic. Thanks for that. It's really useful. Joe has an absolute disaster here.

He just plays with a completely straight bat. As you have described him earlier on in the podcast, he's a very straightforward man with a rubber band ball, which you would assume bounces more. Why would you assume that? It's made of rubber bands.

I thought it'd be super bouncy. Can you bounce a rubber band? Not a single one. I'm not... What? The rubber element makes you think it would be bouncy? Yeah, I thought, you know, you put all those rubber bands together,

I thought it would bounce to the moon. Oh, that's fair. I don't think that. The moon. You're smarter than me you're completely right no I'm not I

it's erm just yeah I just wouldn't think it I would to be honest with you

I would just think the bouncy ball would be yeah I mean as Alex says in the episode as well like it's amazing how few people

actually pick the bouncy ball when bounce is in the name of the ball. There was a tennis ball? There was a tennis ball. Paul uses a tennis ball on the roof to get his nine bounces. I'd be tempted by a tennis ball if it was new, new enough.

But, you know, tube fresh. A tube fresh tennis ball's got some bounce in it. How can you tell a tube fresh tennis ball? Nice and yellow? Nice and yellow. Nice and yellow. Is it a sniff test? Yeah, yeah. I spent a lot of time alone as a child. Tennis balls were a big part of my life because I would bounce. Oh God, this sounds so sad, but it is true. I was a cricketer, I don't know if you know this about me, I was a keen cricketer. So I used to practice just bouncing a tennis ball off the house and catching it for fucking hours. And it was always a thrill to get a tube fresh ball. But it did make

the catching a bit more dynamic. This is some wonderful insight into your childhood. The thrill of the tube fresh ball. Is this something that you might incorporate into lyrics in the future? It's probably something I will put in as some sort of art practice thing that no one in the world will get. But I know now you will. Yeah, I'll get it.

It's a little Easter egg for you. We'll eagerly await the release of self esteems tube fresh yeah yeah no what I would do is I would pump into venues the smell of a new tennis ball and that would create the excite the feel the excitement and the treat it just was such a treat to get a new one that god i sound like sound like what like i would have to bathe in the in in a bucket in the garden i did get all the things i didn't my parents didn't just like christmas wasn't a new 10 inch happy christmas here's your tube again but no i would get, yeah,

I would cultivate the feeling and excitement of the, yeah, anyway. I bet Adele can do that. Do you know what I mean? I don't think Adele's... I bet Mumford & Sons can pump in whatever scent. You know what I mean? I cannot wait to be at that level where I can do stuff like that. But they don't.

When people get to that level, they don't do like mad things like that, do they? They're not pumping smells in. Mumford & Sons aren't pumping smells in. That's because they're not thinking widescreen enough. Do you know what I mean? And these mad geniuses like me are out here with not many of my Spotify streams

and not being able to curate the sniff of a show. But yeah, we'll keep working hard until I... Another great title for a tour, curate the sniff. The sniff of the show. Curate the sniff. That's what I mean. And then I'll keep people coming back. They'll go, oh, did you go to the tennis ball one?

Yeah. No, but I did go to the... What's another smell I would want? The smell of James Corden's producer. She smelled amazing. amazing oh really? she smelled successful man I would have thought that would just be sort of fear the smell of James Corden's producer

it's expensive I wrote sorry what perfume are you wearing? she told me I wrote it down and went on the website and it's so expensive I was like never never buying that. As a heavy metal fan, I was at a metal gig last night. I really think metal bands should start piping in some other smell

because otherwise you just get the smell of the people around you and it's not good stuff. You're a metalhead, wow. Yeah, I was at a gig last night. I went to see Revocation and Goat Whore at the Dome last night. It was fantastic but it did stink I love that

wow that's really cool is it I mean is it or is it the complete opposite it's nice to talk to someone who isn't like oh yeah have you heard of wet leg I did go and see wet leg as well recently to be fair yeah

what were they called something whore goat whore I did go and see Wet Leg as well recently, to be fair. Big feet. What were they called? Something whore? Goat whore. Goat whore. Oh, beautiful. I love knowing there's huge subsections of music that I don't know anything about. Yeah.

I don't want to be part of. Plenty of people there. And it's always fun watching those metal bands do inter-song patter because it never fits with their sort of song personality. So the lead singer of Goat Whore at one point told us all to scooch forward.

It was fantastic. Oh my God. Scooch! What a metal word. Oh God, that's brilliant sorry yes i absolutely loved ian's technique i think is probably something that i would have gone for just because i don't think i would have got around to actually doing the attaching a string and bouncing or using a net or anything like that and i love watching in in do tasks because he is just like a massive puppy. He's so excitable. He is so cute, isn't he? And counting the bounces, I rewound this a few times.

Just the way he said the number seven when he was so excited. He went, seven, seven. S-I-V-I-N is how he says it. He's just so excitable. I love that guy. Yeah, it was nice seeing him commit. I've never seen him in a comedy where I've only ever experienced him as love, you know,

the savior of the love Island. Cause I, I watch every love Island still. Um, so it was nice to see him. Yeah. Within the comedy environment. Yeah.

I mean his, yeah, it's, it's difficult now after love Island when you're watching it and do standup because you kind of get distracted. You go, why aren't you go why aren't you why aren't you talking

about some people in bikinis yeah yeah but worth it for the paycheck I bet oh yeah I'm sure I'm sure tasty tasty

two series a year now I'll be presenting that spin off show one day I'm sure such such differing ambitions within your own life it's either get the budget to pipe

the smell of tennis balls into a venue or present uh or present love island after sun i'm just a known i want to know illusions about final form is holly willoughby do you know i mean i know that i mean that there's worse final mortgage i'm gonna have you know yeah yeah but then i equal part you know i also feel like david burton do you know? Yeah, yeah. But then I equal part, you know, I also feel like David Byrne, do you know what I mean? Yeah, I think you can do both, yeah. I think I can. Like, going on Taskmaster and House of Games and stuff,

it was a, does FKA Twigs do this now? It was a conversation with my music family. Could FKA Twigs do that? Well, I mean, I feel like more pop girlies should go and have more fun so yeah i agree i agree yeah it might it might negate the serious seriousness of my art but i don't know we'll find out are you telling it's too late for me to be a sort of uh high art pop uh sensation yeah fair enough uh joe gets one point for his four bounces absolutely pathetic two points for paul sinner's roof attempt three points for ian sterling's 36 bounces very good sean gets four

points for 112 and lou gets the big five for 225 bounces this really is lou's episode so far i've got an issue they like started it over lots of times. If you use that definition, all the times I bounced it, you can use all of them up until my goal. The rule was you couldn't touch it between propelling it and the bin. That wasn't written on the card. It was exactly what you read out at the start of the show. They didn't touch it between propelling and the bin.

If anything, if I may interject a bit, I would suggest that the ladies use the bounce stabiliser. They didn't touch it between propelling and the bin if anything if I may interject to be beer I Would suggest the ladies used a bank stabilizer Wonderful yes, how many bounces did they get big boy? Sean 112 bounces which is is 108 more than Joe. And Lou, who did her system for the full ten minutes, there were 225 that struck the ground. That's 221 more than Joe.

Yeah, I'm afraid it's one point to Joe, two to Paul, three to Ian, four to Sian, but five points to Lou Sanders. Ba-bang! Task two, devise the most delicious dust. You have five minutes to choose your ingredients and then ten minutes to make your delicious dust and serve it in this dustpan. Your time starts now. I would have loved to have done this one.

We didn't get a food one in our series. I think it would have been boring because I think I focus too much on making it delicious. So I would have done something more like Paul, but I would have attempted to make parmesan crisps and maybe really get some crispy bacon in and properly properly like pulverize it again there was subjective what if you don't think that's delicious I mean Alex looks like a man who finds most savory things delicious so yeah I think so I mean he he has no real taste in food is is what I'd say about Alex.

He'll just eat anything. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think, what flavour crisps would he choose actively? Cheese and onion? Honestly, I don't think he actively chooses anything. So we had him on off-menu and he says when he has lunch at Taskmaster, he has whatever anyone else is having.

So he just copies people's orders because he can't make up his own mindmaster he has whatever anyone else is having. So he just copies people's orders because he can't make up his own mind. What's wrong with him? What happened? Yeah, so weird. So I think that's why he eats anything presented to him in Taskmaster. So, I mean, obviously this task features

what he says is the worst thing he's ever eaten on Taskmaster or one of the worst which is Lou's burnt porn and popping candy. Yeah, but you you can obviously tell that was my favorite yes oh of course it's my favorite as well but you didn't have to eat it i suppose no and why was it your favorite well i liked the concept i liked going right the word delicious what does that mean yeah because straight away i'd be like oh it's hard because everyone likes different things.

Not taking into account the fact that Alex won't happen to eat anything. But delicious, what is delicious? You know, the crumbling of the patriarchal systems is delicious. Yeah. That's not up for debate. So I liked that as a concept. Yeah that's what Lou's

very good at in this series I think is levelling up, she's always levelling up she's always thinking of the thing that other people wouldn't do and there was no chance of anyone else burning a mucky magazine and making Alex eat it and adding popping candy for fun

The parmesan and stuff is making me feel a bit ill. Oh, really? I do pretty much eat anything, but I don't think I want to eat anything that's been at someone's fingertips for so long. Sure. Do you know what I mean? I just kept thinking, oh, a lot of handling.

Yeah, anything that's been crumbled. Yeah, handling, and then the hands were probably a bit sweaty because, you know, nervous about the task. Yeah um well you know that's just me what might you have done the day i would have eaten anything at the hands of anyone for any length of time but you know okay now you don't need to be successful now come on i'm successful now i don't need to you don't need to eat mucky dust um what what what was your go-to when you when you saw it first the task straight away what were you thinking what dust are you gonna make I think I still would have gone just like yeah I wouldn't have

got conceptual I mean maybe I would maybe I would have I really would have tried to linger on the word delicious and yeah about it but I think I I do, I'm quite a keen cook. So I think I still would have gone, because as you get older as well, I don't know if you've found this, but like, as your tongue's just dying off. Like I'm so, like I just fuck with like jalapenos so hard now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really intense flavor, like lime, like like salt like I could just like spoon salt in now

at this stage in my life yeah I'm a salt boy yeah it's really my tongue's like we're out like you've just

got to really work to make us feel so the tongue's dead completely and you're just basically like just trying to revive it

shock it back into action yeah food now is just this like let's see if there's any life in the old dog yet um so i would yeah i would go i wouldn't yeah i think that's where i'd go i'd go like really spicy um spicy sweet and salty if you can get all that together you know if you've got it you got a pot of that uh i'm not sure i do in a moment it's like yeah yeah chili and and lime i think it is and it's just you just like snort that and it's nice yeah so i'll try and recreate something like that yeah that's good really blast alex's face open i think that's

that's the key here because you can either go with trying to win with something delicious or you can go with something that really upsets a Alex and makes him make a weird face because I think that's always good and that's what Lou did and it worked brilliantly um a lot of people going down the already dust based things this is Sian use things that are already dust and greater some chocolate and sure but popping candy greater chocolate glitter I mean glitter's an incredible move from her. Yeah. Because, you know, taste is also about visuals, is it? The first bite is with the eye. Is the old phrase. But now I'm racking my brain to think of things

that look fucking horrible when they taste amazing. Like mushy peas. Mushy peas is one. I think even things like bolognese or stew i think we've trained ourselves to think they look delicious because we know they are delicious but i think if the first time someone saw bolognese they probably want what the fuck is that brown and lumpy yeah mmm send me a place at the table yeah yeah dust base

from the off I mean that's logical it's not amazing telly but it's logical it's logical but come on we've got to think outside the box

Paul's grating cheese and he's putting pancetta in it but I mean Joe's is interesting he's got pork you know pork scratchings

chicken reduction the niviolate and honeycomb crumb mix. But a lot of these things weren't dust, I'd say. Even Ian's, they're not, they're just crumbles. They're not dust. So I think disqualification for me. Even though it did look delicious.

I mean, Ian's, there's the full cheese board of dust, which obviously I'm on board with. But again, cr crumbles not dust and he adds chutney uh in a long uh a long list of things that ian says slightly wrong uh chutney was added so far this series we've also had sandwich and he said clurisps so basically don't go for a picnic with ian sterling because he doesn't know the name of anything his main income is voiceover yeah exactly but they don't eat on love island do they you never see the meat so i guess he doesn't have that body in every no anyone they just drink coffee um and you can say that check instagram stress and alex likes that one it's five points for Ian's dusty cheese board

four points for Joe's porky chicken reduction three points you're right it's all the savoury stuff three points for Paul's cheese and pancetta two points for Sian's glittery sherbet and of course one point for Lou's burnt porn but the political

point that she made is worth the one point I think in terms of you know take those four points off she still made a great point well let's keep it light for me you know the sexist ones well it's porn but it's

not done in a tasteful way we burn it and we top it off with fizz whiz what is fizz whiz it's the popping candy. Disgusting. Something naughty, something nice. Here we go. How would you suggest I eat this? Tongue in the bowl.

Just tongue in the bowl? Yeah. Yeah. Tongue in the bowl. Just tongue in the bowl? Yeah. Tongue in the bowl. Delicious. It doesn't feel nice because you've eaten it out of a bloody pan, but those are not my rules. I don't like the black bits.

I flambé the bowl. Let's talk about task three. It's two parts. I'll read both parts now make yourselves look like one person the team that looks and moves most like one person wins you have 20 minutes the time starts when one of you looks at the other one of you uh task three part two uh remaining as one person throughout put on these yellow wellington boots eat this banana and put the banana skin in the yellow bin over there fastest wins this wins, your time starts now. I mean, this is a highlight of the whole series, I think, this task.

It is so odd the way they both look. I mean, it's amazing. My producer's given me a question here to ask you, but I think I know the answer already. If there was a team task situation in the New Year's treat that you did, who would you pick as a teammate or teammates? Amelia and Carol, obviously. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, there's no...

Mainly because I'd love to just see Greg and Mo next to each other. Yeah. Big man, little man. Big man, little man. It's classic stuff. I mean Mo next to Greg was absolutely amazing. But they sat me next to him in the studio and I was like, oh, come on, give me a break. I look like a honey monster. Which is fine, but

I was like, he's so petite. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, Carol and Amelia. Carol and Amelia, of course. I think we all knew. Because Amelia's so nimble and Carol's obviously Carol Vordman.

Yes. Yeah. I mean, especially if there was a maths-based situation. The comedians team cover themselves in bin bags. Already you can see there's tension in this team. We've seen already some very tense tasks already with them, but this one seems tense

again, I think. Yeah, I think. Yeah, I did feel like, you know, respect and love to Ian. But I did feel like he was bulldozing somewhat. He was a little bit, yeah. And obviously Paul has no interest in bulldozing or, I mean, even being there. I mean, the moment where Paul has to put his head in between loose legs and says shall I do it face up or face down? It's just wonderful. You know it's good, it's good stuff, good telly.

It's good telly but not for, I think it was a bad day for Paul because he had a very he had a very bad shoulder at the time he just had a shoulder operation and the fact that he was then in the middle of this human centipede situation and had to basically roll on the hard ground all the way over to this bin was a complete disaster for him taskmaster legal were like please yeah i think we can't afford to play for paul's like another shoulder yeah you know you got itv suing them for taking out one of the chasers. But yes, it was, I mean, both were fun efforts. It's hard to know what I'd do. Bin bags for some reason I didn't like, but mainly just because of the, I don't know, felt like putting a bin bag over your head.

Don't love that. No. But I suppose that is a quick way to unify, to sort of have a uniform. Yeah, exactly. And with three people, I guess it's a lot harder, right? So you're just trying to, you're having to cover up one person completely.

Yeah, you can't be like, yeah, there's probably not enough access to fabric to make a big enough coat no i mean we've both been in the taskmaster house there isn't uh there's not a fabric wall is there no no sean and joe found some fabric uh but their one person was essentially sean hiding behind joe um it just looked so horrid like it just it it creeped me out their whole thing the whole vibe of moving so slowly and sort of moving over towards that bin when they did it it was it's like something from a studio ghibli film it felt like yeah yeah have you seen them the original uh wicker man

yes yeah yeah when it's like the town fair where they're all being fucking weird and eventually burn him it was serving a bit of that yeah sort of weird folk horror with his nice head poking out it wasn't like too scary

but maybe that made it a bit more sinister I don't know why they didn't do the classic pop someone on your shoulders well exactly I was just thinking then

about the Mo Farah thing like maybe I should have gone with Mo popped him on my shoulders that would have been a lovely moment so yeah yeah the classic you know three three people in a in a coat in a long in a big coat always a fun have you seen Bojack Horseman yes yeah yeah my favorite tv show probably ever and there's a whole bit where she dates someone who is three boys and they sit on top of each other's shelters. And then he's, like, surprised about how nice he is.

Yeah. I think that's the way to go here, rather than having, you know, basically Joe with a massive sort of sharn-shaped hunch on his back. Yeah, and the width they created was sort of not used not really utilized at all no they just slowly moved everywhere but the interaction between the teams was fantastic it's obviously ian getting quite a head up paul being quiet and lou trying trying desperately to marshal this situation whereas sean Sian and Joe just had a lovely old chat about dentists and stuff.

They were so cute. That was a calm one. But I would have been serving more Ian energy, I imagine, had I been there. Yeah, because you want to get it done, right? You want to do well. I want to get it done and I want to work. And in a way, because physically it would be hard

to get Ian, Lou and the cinema on top of each other's shoulders. I suppose taking it to the ground was smart. It was smart until then they found out the next bit was getting over to the bin which was very very tricky and was just complete chaos

which is why they only got one point they took 5 minutes 43 to get that banana skin in the yellow bin and broke all the rules, I think, along the way. I like that though. Sometimes when it just devolves, I do enjoy that. Yeah, just chaos. Whereas Joe and Sian,

four points for 3 minutes 30. Well, you need to give me directions to the Wellington Boats. Let's see who finished the banana. Oh, I went for it! Just go nice and slow. I got it, I got it. Okay, Ian, Ian, to the left. Maybe take your shoes off if you can.

I've got it, I've got it. Well done, mate. Fastest wins, guys. They're not gonna be faster than this. There's something weird moving above me. That's full. You're meant to still look like one person. Shit, we threw the banana skin away.

Why do we need this banana skin? Because we need to put it in the bag. Oh, we're doing the goddamn task. OK, roll over there and get the banana skin there. Let's go. That's it. Good lad. Keep in your foot.

Let's go roll to our front. And then give incentive to go away. Go. Go. Live task. Stack the most bowls and plates on your head. You must stack them one at a time. Also, you must stand upright when you stack. Also, you may not touch

a bowl or a plate that is already stacked. Also, you must stack the bowls and the plates alternately. Also, you must stay standing on your spot throughout the task most bowls and plates stacked correctly after 100 seconds wins i don't think i'd be able to remember all of those rules if i was doing this one no that's the problem with the live one yeah ours was this time and says kind of thing and i was completely useless i unlived the whole time so uh yeah and these days again being being 36 thing i have like really ruined some of my brain cells you know and you do i do it does take me a minute to like actually understand anything so that uh i would struggle with that information

this is i feel like i really are though i don't feel like 36 is, you know, you're saying your tongue's dead. I was not old. Your tongue's dead, your brain's on the way out. No, but you've got to consider the life I've had. Okay. I left school and went in an indie band. Like, I've had a stupid life that's made no sense.

And a lot of coping mechanisms. So, yeah, I'm a particularly fucked 36-year a particularly in a sensory sense um but all of those years bouncing bouncing the tennis ball off the wall must have uh sharpened the old brain yeah yes oh yeah yeah the happy times when i was alone people left me alone to bounce a tennis ball um yes i it's good task really good task again yeah core strength and inner peace wheeled out. Yes, I think, yeah, you're right here. I think I'm beginning to come around to your way of thinking about Lou because it was the five points for Lou, four points for Paul,

which, you know, when this task's announced, you're like, I don't fancy Paul's chances, but he's done well there. Three points for Ian. He was smart. He, you know, he edged it you know he got to a point on the mountain and said I'm setting up camp here yeah which is you know a good gambling technique right yes yeah I've gambled I've played Uno though that's not it's a bad technique for Uno just like play it safe sometimes you you know? Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.

He used his smarts rather than the others who were just sort of trying to beast their way through it. Three points for Ian, two points for Joe, and one point for Sian. Very strong episode for both Lou and Ian. But at this point in the series, I mean, we're one episode before the end. Lou's on 152 points and Ian and Joe are on 138.

We're going into a final episode where there's really not much chance of anyone catching up with her. That must have been cool. Must have been a cool thing. I really went on it thinking, I so really do want to win. Mainly because like,

another stupid thing to put on my shelf. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? I was genuinely quite gutted. But you know, on ours we all drew apart from Mo Farah who won. So that was my shelf. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Well, it's genuinely quite gutted. But you know, on ours, we all drew apart from Mo Farah who won. So that was kind of cute. Yeah, well, that's nice.

And you know, it's Samoa Farah. You can't really, you can't really complain about that, right? He's an athlete. He's an athlete, exactly. Can't beat an athlete. Yes. Another album title there.

Although, do you ever think about the fact, you say you want, somebody's put on your wall, you want that Taskmaster trophy. Do you really think, is Samoa Farah displaying that Taskmaster trophy? Do you think he's even, do you think he's even had it sent to him? Do you think he's bothered? I don't, well, no, I don't.

I'm so bothered. I went on the Vic Hope Sunday show and they gave me this weird clay medal and that is on my award shelf. You know, they all matter to me. Yeah. clay medal and that is on my award shelf I'll I'll I you know they all matter to me yeah

no I agree it's like Mumford's not you know not being bothered to pump some smell in do you know what I mean the people who get what

aren't the people who deserve the opportunities I reckon Mumford would pump smells in I reckon they will now if they listen to this because I

you know I don't know if they listen to this genius I went to school with Mumford of pump smells in. I reckon they will now if they listen to this. I don't know if they listen to this. I went to school with Mumford, of course. Did you? He was the Artful Dodger and I played the Undertaker's daughter. Yes! That's horrible to think about.

Not seen him in a while, to be fair. I was Audrey and Ryan Sampson was Seymour. Oh, that's pretty good. We did all the shoppers at school, yeah. That's good. I love dropping that. That's better than me and Mumford in Oliver, I think.

Listen, if you revived both productions, I think they'd both get bums on seats. Yeah, yeah, I think so. What's on stage awards next year baby thank you so much Rebecca for coming on the Taskmaster podcast you've been an absolute delight you're on tour soon yes I go on tour next week for coming on the Taskmaster podcast. You've been an absolute delight.

You're on tour soon, yes? I go on tour next week and it's sold out. So you can't come. That's brilliant. But if you or Daisy want to come, let us know. We'll put you on the guest list. Thank you very much. What a great plug where it's only relevant to me and the producer.

I'm playing a load of festies again. And the thing is, when you get booked for festivals like this, you're getting booked to try and sell tickets. I've never been in that situation before, but the font's quite big now for me on these posters. So if you could come to these festivals, that would be fabulous. And to increase your font every year. It's yeah, it really is. It's the font all it all roads leads to how big your font is is it the same in comedy yeah i mean certainly there's some festivals where you know you want to you want to get a bigger font for sure or be on the next lineup um but yeah you you can tell

how well you're doing by that in comedy is it who's on latest is biggest bestest yeah if you're on last you're headlining that's annoying though because i'd want to go home earlier yeah you should start trying to change that culture yeah i'll go on and do 45 minutes and then put on a load of open spots to close the night out yeah genius i'd love that i'll leave you with that love it um we always ask our guests to rate their experience on the podcast between one and five points in the style of the Taskmaster. So feel free. I feel like this is going to be an honest score. Oh, it's a six.

Can I give it a six? Yeah, you can give it a six. Of course you can. I really have. I'm whinging all the time at the minute because I've got too much to do. And I've had to say no to all podcasts. And then I said, no, I really want to do this one and everyone was like but you're whinging all the time about what you've got on are you sure you want to do this and I have been proved right because it's

cheered me up for an hour thank you good well thank you very much you of course welcome back on anytime uh whenever you've got a little bit less on you feel like chatting about Taskmaster some more please come back on thank Amazing, definitely will. Thank you so much, Rebecca. Thank you. See ya. Thank you so much to Rebecca for coming on the podcast. And you are welcome back anytime, of course, to chat about Taskmaster.

Look, all her tour dates are sold out. No point plugging those. Go and listen to her music. Check her out at festivals coming up. Keep an eye on whatever she's up to. You've got to go and listen to her music uh check her out at festivals coming up keep an eye on whatever she's up to you've got to go and see a show thank you very much to rebecca thank you very much to you for listening we'll be back next week to talk about taskmaster series a episode 10 the final episode in this series and we will be joined by the wonderful ursula carlson ursula carl, a fantastic comedian,

New Zealand-based, and of course, a former contestant on Taskmaster New Zealand. She's absolutely brilliant. Can't wait to talk to her. We will see you next week. Bye-bye.