Transformative Taskmaster | Ghosts, Goats, Glitter | s19e05 Debrief

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Lewis: Hello! Kitty cat tail. Kitty butt. So, let me make sure you’re going. Yep, you’re
going. So, we’re live streaming this today, and probably going forward. Because editing these is, quite honestly, a pain in the ass. Especially after last week, where we nattered on so long it got
dark in San Francisco. Oh, hang on, you’re not coming through. Let me fix you. No, you’re not… I can fix that. Nope, that’s not what I wanted. I want you… speakers. I want it to be that speakers. Okay, try again?

TK: Hello.

Lewis: There we go. Yes, hello.

TK: Yay.

Lewis: Brand new setup to stream, so I didn’t quite have your audio channel set up, but that’s fine because it is now.

TK: Incredibly rude of you, TBH.

Lewis: I know. So, my mug today, great big smiley face man mug.

TK: Nice. Looks like the Pringles guy without a hat.

Lewis: He kind of does. It’s from a cafe across the river.

TK: Oh, nice. My cup I got for $2 at a cat… what was it called? Cat sanctuary fundraiser. And it says, “Rescued is my favorite type.” And it’s also a big ass mug. And I love big ass mugs.

Lewis: I think those tartan ones that I have are about the biggest I can handle. Anything bigger than that and it’s literally a bowl. Right. Okay. Well, enough nattering on from us about coffee
mugs.

TK: Let’s talk about the episode!

Lewis: By the way, this is the kind of bullshit you guys normally don’t see.

TK: Welcome to the… I don’t know, the witching hour, I guess. Although isn’t that like 12:00 p.m.?

Lewis: I think that’s midnight, right?

TK: Midnight?

Lewis: It’s something in the middle of the night.

TK: Ma’am. [to Podcast Cat] Just let me just sit! Oh my gosh. She’s like, “What if I step on your new Horne Section tattoo?” Which, thank you, by the way, for designing that. Came out so good. So happy with that. Go follow me on Bluesky to see my tattoos.

Lewis: 2am.

TK: Oh! 2 a.m. Okay, cool.

Lewis: Thank you, Elixir.

TK: All right. What are we talking—oh my gosh. Get your butt out of—

Lewis: Uh oh. [TK’s screen has frozen] I’ve lost you.

TK: Can you still hear me?

Lewis: I can hear you, but you’re on an-

TK: Okay, yeah, I’m frozen.

Lewis: -unflattering frame right now.

TK: Oh no! Turn on camera, uh oh.

Lewis: What’d you do?

TK: Oh no. What? What? What? Why? What? I’m so confused.

Lewis: What’d you do?

TK: I didn’t do shit!

Lewis: This is what happened to me on my laptop, which is why I’ve been back here.

TK: I wonder if I accidentally unplugged something. Hold on.

Lewis: Technical difficulties. Oh, you’re back – no, you’re not. Now it’s just showing the trash can in the corner of my room again. You’re not supposed to see that!

TK: This one, right?

Lewis: Go away. First time doing a stream, there’s gonna be problems.

TK: Use webcam. Did that work? Wait—

Lewis: Yes, you’re back.

TK: That was stupid.

Lewis: I hate Discord.

TK: My brand new webcam being like, “You know what would be so cute? If we stopped fucking working!” And no, that wouldn’t be so cute.

Lewis: Oh boy.

TK: Fucking technology.

Lewis: I hate it. Okay, well, let’s just start right at the top with Greg bullying his nieces on
international television.

TK: That was so fucking funny. As a teacher, that’s big, big teacher vibes right there. So funny.

Lewis: What I love is that he’s been talking about them for so long that they’ve gone from being the precious little children who annoy him about their footwear, to insufferable teenagers that he has to take cheap shots at on television.

TK: So funny. I love it. It’s the cutest thing.

Lewis: And then yep, I’ve got my big notebook full of notes.

TK: Nice.

Lewis: My camera’s here, but my streaming’s over there.

TK: Looks like there’s not mushroom in that notebook. What’s up, Rosie? Call me.

Lewis: I don’t know how she managed to fuck that joke up, but somehow she did.
And then we’ve got…

TK: Okay, so my notes say, the first thing I wrote down is, “Sweet Prince.” So, that’s right off the
bat. And then, “My sweet little Greg Forest Gateau.” We’re going to link this later, but the official Taskmaster Bluesky account posted-

Lewis: Oh my God!

TK: -those two frames, with Greg saying, “Hello, sweet prince.” And Alex saying, “Back to you, my sweet little Greg Forest Gateau.”

Lewis: Who are you?!

TK: And then they said, “A little fuel for the fanfic furnace.” *lipstick kiss* emoji

Lewis: Come on our podcast.

TK: Oh my gosh. So that was from the official account and I was like, “whomst is running this account?”

Lewis: I know, right? And then I go into the prize task from there. Oh shit, Is that going to be dumb? Yes, it is. Okay, so that doesn’t work.

TK: Also, before we get to the prize task, I think this is where Alex does his little banter thing and then Greg says, “Okay, let’s get on with it or whatever.” And then Alex says, “I’m going to get on, Greg.” And I was like, “Delete the comma and you’ve got some fanfic prompts.”

Lewis: So, apparently I can’t open – I need a third monitor is what I need. I didn’t have quite enough time to test this, but oh well. Uh, Taskmaster Fandom, series 19. Usually I have-

TK: Sorry, I’m typing. I’m typing to a special guest that we’re going to have in the future to tell them that I can’t do the ninth because I will be in Michigan.

Lewis: Okay, so let’s get down to the prize task. The best object to bestow in your will to a relative against whom you are seeking revenge. And what I wrote down for this is that Mat and Fatiha are coming at this from the exact same angle, of directing this at a specific someone that in both cases seem to think they like something they don’t necessarily like, or maybe not like as much which I thought was hilarious.

TK: Now, was it Mat?

Lewis: So, Mat brought the Mona Lisa puzzle.

TK: Was it Mat that was – he went first, right? And he was like, “Were we not all meant to think of a specific relative?” That’s what I thought too. I was like, “Oh, yeah. I would think of a very specific relative.”

Lewis: See, all I’d have to do, and I don’t know how I would have represented this in the studio, was fuck it, you can sort out my vampire den. I’ve got so much shit in this apartment. All of my craft shit, all of my art shit, my records, my weird memorabilia. Also a weird amount of strange art.

TK: Also some dead stuff too, right?

Lewis: Lots of dead stuff, whole shelf full of dead stuff. I’ve got a board up on the wall that I need to move because now it’s in a bad place because it’s right behind Ryan’s desk now. But I’ve got a light board with a whole bunch of medical slides on it from X-rays and stuff of broken bones which I got that down at the oddity shop as well that disappeared on me. Waah, boo.

TK: Oh, that’s sad. We love an oddity shop.

Lewis: That would be mine. Sort out my fucking apartment and that is yours. I don’t know how I’d represent that. A bin of junk?

TK: I got as far as thinking of the relative that I would choose and then I didn’t think anymore about that ‘cause I don’t like thinking about her.

Lewis: If I wanted to be as calculated and passive aggressive as she’s been, I’d bequeath it to my mother. Here you go. I know you hate every single one of my hobbies. Now you get to deal with them.

TK: I really liked Mat’s prize task. So, this is going to be a spoiler warning for this live stream.

Lewis Big spoiler.

TK: Well spoiler warning for me, which is: I’m in love with Mat Baynton. His smug little face
at the end of when he’s like “the puzzle.” And I’m like, “I want to squish your face in my hands and just squeeze so hard.” Oh my gosh, I love him so much. And there’s a lot more Mathew
stuff coming up in this episode specifically. I’ve already said this, that I love Mat, and he is one of the very few contestants that I actually knew who he was before he went on Taskmaster, which I was really excited about. I loved him in Ghosts, he was my favorite ghost. So, I was already super hyped for him and he is doing nothing for my big big crush on him right now because he seems like the sweetest little dork of a man and I love him.

Lewis: He is adorable. I did really like Stevie’s as well, even though Greg hated it. Because Stevie’s is the kind of thing my grandmother would have done. When she was talking, my mind also went back to that series 17 task, to bring in something for a grandmother. And mine, I’d probably have to make a replica because I think it got thrown away after she died. But that’s a whole story we won’t go into. I made her this big crosstitch sampler that said – it was on black glitter fabric – in rainbow lettering, that said, “Oh FUCK, not you again.” And she put it on my grandfather’s side of the bed.

TK: Oh my gosh, that’s amazing.

Lewis: So that’s what I would have brought in for that one.

TK: Incredible. You know, Stevie’s glitter bomb was very smart because as anyone who has ever worked with glitter knows, you cannot get that shit out of anything. And in fact, so I have a story about this. I think there are several services, online services, that you can send a glitter bomb to your ex or whatever, or an enemy. And I had one of my best friends, my best friend from college. She went through a really bad breakup and she was like,”He is demanding that I send him the stuff that he left at the house, and I just don’t want to deal with him,” and all this kind of stuff. And so I said, “You should put all of his documents in a really big envelope and just fill it with glitter.” And she’s like, “No, that’s too mean.” I’m like, “Do it, you coward.” So I think what she ended up doing is ordering one of those glitter bomb things. But the glitter wasn’t fine glitter, but it was tiny tiny dicks. glitter dicks. And I was like, “Hell yeah, dude. That’s amazing.”

Lewis: She doesn’t listen to this podcast. So I can say this here. I’ve got a friend that I really want to send a glitter bomb to, because I know she will be furious with me. I’ve seen the ones that play music non-stop as well. I think it would be just hilarious to glitter bomb my best friend, just so that she’ll call me and shout at me. Because we love doing that to one another for a long time. Not as much now because I don’t come across them as often, but when I lived down in Las Vegas where birds would literally fall out of the sky from the heat, sometimes. It was from an inside joke from a Sherlock Holmes roleplay, where I would take photos of dead birds every time I found them, and I’d send them to her. And every now and then I still will if I find one.

TK: Hell yeah. That’s real friendship right there.

Lewis: But also, jumping ahead quite a bit. If Jason shows up next episode with glitter…

TK: Please, oh, please.

Lewis: Because he’s never going to get that out. That’s there for the rest of his life.

TK: Did you listen to – we’re doing this very quickly after the episode.

Lewis: It hasn’t gone up on YouTube yet, so I couldn’t see it.

TK: But have you listened to Jason’s episode with Ed on the Taskmaster podcast?

Lewis: Has it already gone up on YouTube?

TK: I don’t know. I listened to it on Spotify.

Lewis: Okay. Well, if it was the one for this week then no.

TK: Okay, so Jason was on. Great episode, go listen to it. And he was saying, the makeup people were so upset, because they had to get four people on me to brush glitter out of my beard and out of my hair. And I was finding glitter on me weeks later and everything.

Lewis: That’s there for the rest of his life!

TK: You’re gonna keep finding glitter. You do that at the end of the show, you’re going to… that fine, fine glitter, it doesn’t go away. It does not go away.

Lewis: I think that’s what Greg didn’t understand because he doesn’t have children.

TK: Right.

Lewis: They call it Craft Herpes!

TK: And Stevie was like, you forgot about the glitter. That’s the biggest part of this, was the glitter.

Lewis: And Jason sure showed him what that means.

TK: I wish Jason, wouldn’t it be great if Jason just went over and dumped it over Alex’s head?

Lewis: Oh god, I loved that in series six when Liza did that.

TK: Definitely something to keep an eye out for for the next episode. Because it would have been the first – and he said this on the podcast – it was the first recording of a two recording day.

Lewis: It was five.

TK: So funny.

Lewis: Give Greg a glitter beard, please.

TK: Hell yeah, dude. Let’s talk about [uncontrollable giggles] Fatiha going, “My auntie, who’s a BITCH!” directly down the camera! Fucking broke me!

Lewis: What I loved was that Alex said that there was a word he didn’t understand. And I was like, it’s probably another Arabic word or something, and then it’s just ‘bish’. Surely you’ve come across bish before?

TK: Oh my gosh. I was crying because she looks right down the camera, “My auntie who’s a BITCH.” I’m like, I can’t!

Lewis: See, but then just the way that Fatiha is, you know that that is also her favorite auntie.

TK: Right. She makes the best couscous, but I never eat it. Yeah, okay. Oh my gosh. All right, who did the other..?

Lewis: So, and then we had-

TK: What did Jason- oh, the creepy doll. We’ve got another creepy doll instance.

Lewis: When we were watching that, me and my husband, I said that’s a bathroom painting. And he goes, yep.

TK: I literally was like: this is something that Lewis- I wouldn’t be surprised if Lewis was like, “I actually own that.”

Lewis: So I don’t own that one-

TK: Yet!

Lewis: But there are quite a few things that come close.

TK: [to Podcast Cat] Come here.

Lewis: One of the things in our bathroom, I have lots of paintings and shit in my bathroom just because I’m out of wall space. Kitty cat! We have who we call Archie, it’s the ghost that lives in our plumbing. And I’ve decided to personify him. I went online and I found this really haunted-looking Victorian boy. Printed it out, put it in a nice frame, and that’s Archie.

TK: Amazing.

Lewis: It just really unsettles everyone who goes in there! And then what did…

TK: What did Rosie bring? Oh, she brought the coffee grounds.

Lewis: Oh, yeah, the coffee grounds. That was really good.

TK: That was funny.

Lewis: One thing I didn’t like though, during Fatiha’s one where she was complaining about pillows of all things. I kind of hated the way Greg started stroking the trophy.

TK: That was weird.

Lewis: ‘Cause he usually just doesn’t even acknowledge it, because even he hates it.

TK: Right. One of the things I was going to say, going back to continuity stuff with the glitter. This is not related at all, but I just watched the season finale of Taskmaster Australia episode 10. And one of the contestants gets, for a prize task, something pierced – and it’s something really weird pierced. I’ve literally never seen anyone get this specific place on their body pierced. And he still has it by episode 10. And he is showing it off. And I’m like, that’s so fucking cute. I love that.

Lewis: Interesting.

TK: Such a good season of Taskmaster Australia, by the way.

Lewis: I’m lazy so I only watch it when it comes up on YouTube.

TK: It’s really good. It’s really good.

Lewis: I can’t wait. So the first actual task we have is-

TK: Oh, those caves? Gorgeous!

Lewis: -another fucking complicated-ass task.

TK: Okay, but can we talk about the location? Holy shit, gorgeous. I love a fucking grotto, beautiful.

Lewis: Do we know who does the location scouting?

TK: No?

Lewis: No. I’d like to know that.

TK: They’ve picked some real bangers. We’ve had the fuckin’ hill for the Pealympics. Gorgeous location. We’ve had the ruined abbey. Oh my gosh. And then now this? Jesus Christ, y’all going ham for this one. Elixir says, “Greg should kiss the trophy in the final.”

TK: Spoilers, but everybody kisses the trophy in the final of Australia, so go watch it.

Lewis: I remember Morgana making out with it as well.

TK: Several people have made out with it. Stop, that’s my tea.

Lewis: So, here’s this complicated-ass task. Be the least annoying person round the campfire. You must only sing a folk song, tell a ghost story, or recite a beat poem – and not be annoying. Your song, story, or poem must either be about fast cars, barbecues, or DIY. And it can contain no more than 100 words.

TK: Easy.

Lewis: What a fucking task. And then Jason corrects the grammar that doesn’t even need correcting.

TK: I loved that. I loved that so much. I loved him pulling the pen out of his pocket and just being like, “Don’t worry, I got it.” And I was like, “I love you so much.” And I see where he was coming from.

Lewis: ‘Cause in American, that’s a very old fashioned kind of-

TK: Because it’s short for around.

Lewis: But it’s lost the apostrophe.

TK: We don’t say ‘round’. Which, as an American, he probably didn’t know that.

Lewis: He probably never heard that outside of Dickens.

TK: I loved his face when he played the keyboard and it played the most annoying sound, and he was like, “Yes!!” I’m like, “Jesus Christ, he’s not winning.” Oh my gosh.

Lewis: His entire go was just obnoxious.

TK: But also his thing was about, as Greg says, it was about fucking and marrying my friend. Jealous, much? But anyway, I feel like that’s fanfic fodder for Jason and Alex shippers. That’s a rarepair. But I’m sure that there will be some Alex/Jason fanfic at some point. Because, “We made sweet love on a log.” Did you? Did you, Jason?

Lewis: I’m just trying to picture the logistics of it.

TK: And then the proposal, the marriage proposal? And I was just like what is happening? Because usually we don’t get an Alex proposal unless it’s literally: Propose to Alex. Your time starts now, so…

Lewis: Which, in that task way back when, I was really surprised nobody played with the definition of proposal. Kitty cat!

TK: She’s just looking, what are you doing?

Lewis: She might see the IR in the camera. I don’t know if cats can see that. I was surprised nobody played with the definition of proposal. Because my mind instantly went almost to where Victoria went, of just instantly proposing, but she was still stuck in the wedding mindset. I would have proposed: you, me, blanket fort, pizza, couple of brews and a good film. Let’s do it right now.

TK: I have a proposal for you. In Beetlejuice the musical, it’s my favorite musical. The dad is talking to Delia, and she’s like, “Oh, are you breaking up with me?” And he’s like, “Can’t you see what I’m proposing? I’m proposing!”

Lewis: It’s weird that we’ve come all the way back around to Alex getting proposed to again.

TK: Very strange. Rosie’s singing voice?

Lewis: Oh my god, that just came out of nowhere.

TK: Gorgeous. Gorgeous. Loved that.

Lewis: I also love that Fatiha didn’t know what beat poetry is.

TK: That was funny.

Lewis: I always, when I think of beat poetry, I always think of So I Married an Axe Murderer: Woman. Whoaaa, Man! He did this same riff on this poem. The whole thing was that he was a beat poet who married an axe murderer. It literally what it said on the tin. And he would always just do this beat poetry and it was the central thread through the film. If you haven’t seen it, do. It’s amazing. Mike Myers before he got turned into a permanent cartoon.

TK: I am just now looking at our YouTube live stream.

Lewis: Oh, you’re just now seeing it?

TK: I like the borders. That’s cool.

Lewis: And then I love how you could tell immediately though that Alex didn’t like Jason’s ‘song’.

TK: It wasn’t even a song! He wasn’t singing.

Lewis: He was doing more beat poetry than anything.

TK: And the captions, because they do a pound sign for music?

Lewis: Oh, a hash.

TK: They do that to insinuate that there’s music happening. And I’m like, I don’t know why
you’re doing that, because there’s no music happening! He’s just talking.

Lewis: And occasionally making noise. And then after he proposed, Alex also went down on one knee. Why’d he do that? Just Alex being Alex.

TK: What’s that thing where primates will mirror each other or whatever? You know what I’m talking about? I don’t know.

Lewis: Humans do it [crosstalk]

TK: Right.

Lewis: But I also appreciated how much Greg hated Jason’s task.

TK: Oh my gosh, he was so mad.

Lewis: He must have been livid this entire episode, because it it did seem like it was put together specifically to annoy Greg. And then we have, I also have a note on here: Alex looking sunburnt during Rosie’s go. Did you notice that? It was hard hard to tell because they were in the cave, but he he was-

TK: Well, the lighting was a little weird, but I don’t know. It’s possible. Who knows? Oh, yeah, somebody says, “Your cat looks like it’s always winking.” It’s ‘cause she’s missing an eye. Permanent wink.

Lewis: Eye-RIP Kitty! Oh, and we were also talking about… We’ll go back to that after this task, okay? Because I just write all my notes in order. And then he just looked absolutely perplexed during Fatiha’s… story?

TK: To be fair, she just went. She was like, “All right, I’m just going to start talking and I don’t care about this.” And it’s like, “What are you talking about?” That was weird.

Lewis: It wasn’t even a ghost story. It was a dead goat story!

TK: A goat story.

Lewis: Which I do agree, goat is the best meat.

TK: I don’t think I’ve had goat.

Lewis: Oh, really? You’re missing out.

TK: I should try that at some point.

Lewis: It’s really good, because it doesn’t quite have the same gaminess that sheep does. My husband, I don’t really know, he says it’s a cross between beef and pork almost, but I don’t eat pork, so what the fuck do I know?

TK: Now, Stevie got pretty high marks for this task, and I wouldn’t say that she was annoying, but I didn’t really like her take on it? But again, this is another thing of like, coolness is in the eye of the beholder, that we were talking about the other week. Where if I want to be cool around a campfire, I’m going to tell the spookiest ghost story, or I’m going to, I don’t know, do something like the thing that Mat did. I was like [hum-sings?] this man can play guitar.

Lewis: And then he fucked it by one word!

TK: We’re going to get on to that. But it kind of annoyed me that Stevie was like, “Oh, maybe there was a ghost. Okay, bye.” And I was like, “What? Okay, sure, I guess.”

Lewis: Let’s go get a sausage, or whatever she sang.

TK: [sings] Yeah, gonna get a sausage!

Lewis: That’s the new, “One on a barge pole for me!”

TK: “For me!” I fucking love that, dude.

Lewis: It is.

TK: Oh my gosh, yes. “Tree wizard!” Anyway, so let’s talk about Mat-

Lewis: Mat was fucking himself.
TK: Because I wrote down: I’m in love with Mat and his… and there is a very fine line I think, especially if you’re a musician, where there are guitar players who are douchebags because they play guitar. And then there are guitar players that are not necessarily douchebags.

Lewis: You’re either a douchebag or a dork basically, is what I have observed.

TK: And it’s such a fine line walking that. And I feel like I was afraid that Mat was going to come off as a douchebag and he just did not. It was a good song, the lyrics were amazing. The
playing of the guitar and the melody, and I legitimately want to cover this song. So, I’m going
to figure out what the chord progression was, and then write it out and do that on my long list of things. I actually need to write down that I’m actually going to do that cover song.

Lewis: I kind of wasn’t surprised though, because in that backmasking task, he was also playing
guitar backwards. He just did the chords in the opposite order, didn’t he? Something like that.

TK: So obviously, we already knew he could play guitar, but this was just so genuinely beautiful, and I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is amazing. I love him so much.” And then we get to Alex
saying, “Okay, well, here’s a thing we need to watch.” and the counter goes up and I was like, “No, no, no, no!” And then it got to-

Lewis: When he put it up for Fatiha. I realized, “Oh, if we see the counter, it’s ‘cause they did bad.” Except for Stevie who just did bad in a weird way.

TK: That was very strange. As I was watching it, my face, sorry for the people that only listen to this, but my face literally went [insert Munch’s The Scream here] “Nooo!”
I was so upset. Oh my gosh.

Lewis: Matty Matty Mat.

TK: I was so fucking upset on his behalf. I was like, “No, no, you didn’t deserve this.”

Lewis: I wrote down for his attempt, I think he was happy to lose the episode. Which, giving background to the live task, I think he has internalized that if he wins too many episodes, everyone will hate him.

TK: And that’s something Ed talked about on the podcast as well.

Lewis: if he’d won four in a row, he wouldn’t have been able to live with himself.

TK: But I was, oh my gosh.

Lewis: What’s wrong with this ad break? That has the Discord talking today. Greg said something about camping it up sooner than you think. And then… I don’t know, I didn’t
even catch what they were doing until the second watch. Because Alex’s idea of camp was so far off the mark that it was just jarring and out of place. Greg can do camp, but we already know that.

TK: I didn’t really understand. I think my unpopular opinion is I really liked it, ‘cause I was like this is so stupid, and they’re being like teenage girls being like, no you stop! No, you hang up first!

Lewis: It was something about Alex’s tone that just hit wrong for me. And I think for a lot of other people.

TK: It was really weird.

Lewis: It wasn’t camp, whatever he was doing, it wasn’t camp

TK: It did feel very out of place and I was like what’s happening?

Lewis: He came in way too hard. It’s like, bro, what are you doing? Please stop.

TK: Save that for the Horndle.

Lewis: But I will say the ad breaks this episode weren’t quite as amusing as previous ones.

TK: Is anything going to be? Literally it’s going to be like, “All right, man. Fuck, nasty style.
See you after the break.” That’s the next logical step.

Lewis: My god.

TK: Fucking ridiculous. Okay, so then, this is a line that I wrote down that went by very quickly. “One more for your Taskmaster.” Liked that. Didn’t mind that!

Lewis: I also have that we had Jason yelling at Greg again over scoring, but not the way people normally do. He shouted at Greg that nobody takes him seriously anyway, so…

TK: That was funny, that was really funny.

Lewis: And then just Alex looking absolutely pained when Greg changed the scoring rules.

TK: He doesn’t like when that happens.

Lewis: He hates it. I love, because on the official podcast, Ed Gamble’s podcast, there’s
one episode where… I think it was the one where they were covering series 8 and
Alex was really flustered, because his day had been kind of chaos. And he just went off on Greg changing the scoring rules. He fucking hates it.

TK: He really does not like it.

Lewis: And then for this one, Fatiha and Mat were disqualified. Jason got two, which is why he was shouting, because he was originally only going to get one. And then he gave four to Stevie and five to Rosie.

TK: Poor Mat. He really deserved the world for that one.

Lewis: He did.

TK: I was so upset.

Lewis: He probably would have won the episode as well had he not gone over by one word.

TK: Was the next one the lab task or the monster task?

Lewis: So, the next one is the monster task, and I wrote down: is it the monster from series 10? And then I went and double checked this morning. It bears no resemblance from the series 10
monster that Greg was describing during the penultimate live task. It’s just a new monster.

TK: The name of the monster is the Wow Monster. Which is a great fucking call back. A great call back to Alan Davies.

Lewis: It was Alan Davies, just screamed, “Wow!”

TK: So fucking funny. Okay, so I wrote down the following dates. I looked at the picture of the driver’s license for the Wow Monster. So, I guess these are in British date format. We do things
differently in America.

Lewis: I didn’t write them down, what were they?

TK: Okay, the first date was 9-19-1999, which I think is September 19th, 1999. Which I think is date of birth, I would assume. And then there’s March… Oh, I think I wrote that down wrong. March 7th, 2020 – I think it was 2023, I think I wrote it down wrong. And then March 6th, 2024, which I think is the-

Lewis: No, those are the obtained date and the expiration date, 2024 and 3024.
I do remember that. I didn’t look at the day and month. I just was looking at the years.

TK: And then the address is Monster Kingdom under the Taskmaster House. New lore. And then I don’t know what this is. At first I thought it was the license plate number, but that wouldn’t
make sense because you don’t have that on your… I guess it’s just your user ID. MON123ST456E789R. So that’s cute. And then it says five eyes, five yellow spots, five
orange spots. So there you go. There’s a monster living under the Taskmaster House.

Lewis: How are we going to incorporate that into fic?

TK: I already wrote a Baba Yaga Taskmaster House, which I really liked that one actually. But I fucking love Baba Yaga anything. One of the new Tomb Raider games, well, they’re not super new at this point, but one of the new Tomb Raider games has a whole Baba Yaga DLC. And that’s my favorite part, let’s get this fucking chicken leg-ass house out of here!

Lewis: Elixir says that the monster is what consumes the injured Alex clones.

TK: Oh, Jesus. And then he and then he spits them out as mannequin bits.

Lewis: Under the tree.

TK: That’s where he goes for his daily vomit.

Lewis: But oh my god, Stevie is such a mood though, when she was telling
about her recent driving lessons.

TK: Dude, I could not relate to that at all because I’ve always been – people can feel free to disagree with me, but I’ve always been a fantastic driver. I’ve only ever been pulled over once and I didn’t even get a ticket. They were like, “Oh, this fucking band nerd.” Because I had my trumpet in the back. They were like, “Oh, where are you coming from?” And I was like, “A band conference.” They were like, this fucking dork. And to be fair I had been going 50 in a 30 zone. And they were like, you know it’s a 30 zone back there. Do you know how fast you were going? And I went… “Not 30?” And he laughed and I was like okay we’re going to be fine. I’m a very good driver and I picked it up pretty quick. So I don’t understand people that can’t drive [crosstalk] I didn’t have any problems with it. I passed my driving test on the first go.

Lewis: Well, I can tell you exactly what my trauma was. I had exactly one lesson with my
mother. Never wanted to do it again. Which as I understand that is a uniquely American thing to be taught by a relative who themselves probably don’t know how to drive. Because I can tell you
my mother doesn’t!

TK: See, both my parents were really good drivers.

Lewis: My mother has wrecked more cars than I’ve had hot meals.

TK: Yikes.

Lewis: And then Fatiha saying that she doesn’t drive, but she does have road rage. Which is the worst kind of passenger to have, I think.

TK: Yep, that was funny.

Lewis: Jason learning what a lollipop lady was was adorable as well.

TK: I didn’t know what it was, but from the context clues, I could figure it out pretty quickly. Because they hold up the sign and if you look at it, if you squint at it, looks like a lollipop, that makes sense. I think it’s funny that they call it that.

Lewis: They had one, I think it was the one with Krishnan Guru-Murthy during one of the New Year Treats. I think that was the one where they had a lollipop man that they had to sculpt out of clay, but he was on the wall.

TK: Oh yeah, you’re right!

Lewis: I had to get there by remembering who I saw do doing the task, but it’s in there somewhere.

TK: This task was a whirlwind of activity.

Lewis: It was, Fatiha just not fucking with hitchhikers.

TK: That was funny.

Lewis: Smart, to be fair.

TK: I love seeing the crew get involved with tasks. That’s always fun.

Lewis: This looked like a fun one for the crew. Just wander around, cause mayhem. Rosie fundamentally, again, misunderstood the task. She misunderstood it so badly that she came
back round again and drew a monster. Not the monster, and not the one she saw on
the driving license.

TK: Clearly she didn’t see the driving license at all. She just went, “Oh shit here’s a
driving license.”

Lewis: But she obviously recognized that there was a wallet there – and who was it? It was Jamali who found a wallet in a task and his first thing was: let’s open it up and see what’s in it. Oh, it’s the key to the task.

TK: Was that the… Wasn’t there one?

Lewis: There were other ones.

TK: Mike Wozniak’s season? And it was a fried wallet?

Lewis: They had to guess what was in the batter, and Jamali-

TK: He pulled out the receipt and it just, that was cool. I don’t really have much to say about this task. Honestly, it was just a lot. Very chaotic.

Lewis: I wrote this down and I can’t remember what it was referring to. Taskmaster is an M Night… [some interesting attempts at pronouncing Shyamalan] film.

TK: Shyamalan? That was a quote. Who’s calling me? The Red Cross donation center wants my blood. Not today, vampires. Not today, because my iron is too low.

Lewis: And then Greg imitating the monster with his jazz hands.

TK: That was so, I was like, this man is vibrant today.

Lewis: He does it twice very quickly too.

TK: This is something that we talked about off-stream, is that this series Alex and Greg are in their honeymoon phase. They are all over each other with the pet names and the weird throws to add breaks. You love to see it, they’re very lovey dovey.

Lewis: As I love the ‘divorced’ series, it’s so funny to see them just come back around to this kind of mood.

TK: It’s very fluff – as we call it in the writing community.

Lewis: So this one, the studio, would have been filmed in the autumn last year, wouldn’t
it have been?

TK: Yes. Yep.

Lewis: So, we’ll have to see what a spring filming brings for next series.

TK: That’ll be interesting. Especially because that series is going to be the one that Alex recorded pretty much right after my interview about fanfic.

Lewis: Oh god, you’re right.

TK: That’s gonna be exciting…

Lewis: After you told him about the tags.

TK: Listen…

Lewis: That post is still going around Tumblr and people are still going, why would they say that?!

TK: To be fair to me, he said himself he could probably figure it out. But also, I told him the wrong tag. I said like, “Alex Horne do not read” and it’s “Alex Horne please don’t read this”.

Lewis: They’re probably all canonized to the same thing. So no matter what he puts in he’s gonna find them. And then did you see on that Bluesky post someone asking who finds the fanfic?

TK: No.

Lewis: I responded, “I have it on good authority that Alex finds it himself.”

TK: True!

Lewis: Okay, and then this ad break, just a dig on Alex’s nasty shoes.

TK: That was so cute.

Lewis: Yes, yes. Keep insulting those fucking shoes. We’ve got a pair of them knocking around here and I hate them.

TK: Amazing. And then we had the task in the lab, the mushroom task.

Lewis: I didn’t actually read out the monster task, did I? Oh well.

TK: That’s okay. Everybody knows what we’re talking about.

Lewis: But first, I noticed right before that task that the wall of champions is getting awfully full.

TK: It sure is.

Lewis: There by the front door. So, here’s another one of these tricksy stupid tasks. Shorten these pencils and place your shortened pencils in the pencil case. Part two, write down every word you said in this room before you opened this task. Also, you must write the same number of words in each color, otherwise, you your total will be halved. You must not leave the lab. These tasks are getting awfully wordy.

TK: I was really mad at Stevie for this one, doing what she did. Because of course there’s going to be another part to the task. It doesn’t say shortest pencil wins.

Lewis: She even said that later.

TK: Of course, there’s going to be a second- there’s no win condition. So, there’s obviously going to be a followup to this. Oh my gosh, I was upset. Not sure why Alex had to be actively cooking mushrooms?

Lewis: That would have just completely distracted me.

TK: I would have been like, can I eat those?

Lewis: Can I have some?

TK: Are those for me? I love mushrooms!

Lewis: Same here. Can I have mushrooms?

TK: But I didn’t understand the coloring system thing because you have to – Oh, hi.

Lewis: So they had two color pencils. So ideally they would have written an even amount of words. One in red, one in blue. One in red, one in blue.

TK: Well, that’s what I thought. But then it seemed like they were saying that you had to write the same word?

Lewis: That’s how Fatiha interpreted it, and that was a valid interpretation also, ‘cause she got four points for it.

TK: I didn’t really get that because was it… because were they including
words that you.. Oh, I guess if you’re writing the same word, didn’t say the word, then neither
count.

Lewis: I don’t know. But basically write an even number of words that you said. And I think the column system was the best. Write that amount in one, that amount in the other, which is what Stevie tried to do. And then she just lost her fucking mind.

TK: This was not a good episode for Stevie. You could see her breakdown happening in real time. I felt so bad for her.

Lewis: And then what I want to know is just why did Jason throw the water bottle? It was half full even. It wasn’t even empty. And then he just chucks it at him.

TK: Well, he says on the podcast that that was the first ever they did.

Lewis: Yeah, they said that in the studio.

TK: Which makes it really funny that Stevie didn’t know where the lab was.

Lewis: Yeah!

TK: In that one task in the first episode, I’m like, you know what? what’s it called? My predictions for this series was that Stevie was going to win. I’ve overestimated Stevie’s competence here.

Lewis: She fell for the trap. She shortened them to the tiniest little nubs. And then I wrote: this task is my nightmare. Because I can’t do the memory tasks. Anything that involves
memory, I don’t have one. And then Jason, I think I saw this on Jack Bernhardt’s post, where Jason had the idea to read from the task, but he accidentally picked up the wrong one. And
then afterward, Alex picked up the first task, presumably because he didn’t want them repeating
what Jason had done.

TK: Right, makes sense.

Lewis: And then why is Mat writing with both hands?

TK: That was cute. That was real cute! I was like, you are so stupid and I love you, but also impressive that he can write with both hands.

Lewis: My chair just fell apart.

TK: Oh, that’s good. I liked that.

Lewis: I also liked how the onscreen writing appeared to be their own handwriting.

TK: That was really cool. Big ups for the editors. In general on Taskmaster, but big ups to the editors specifically for that, because that was fucking cool.

Lewis: And then afterward, Alex is so scared of Fatiha.

TK: Can you blame him? She’s terrifying.

Lewis: She is terrifying.

TK: I’d be scared of her, too!

Lewis: And then Alex saying that he was on mushrooms. Yes, I get what you’re saying.

TK: I was like, “All right, calm down.”

Lewis: They’re lucky Jason didn’t burn the page to erase it. No kidding. And then where am I?
And then Stevie just had an absolute nightmare. Ruined her nails for it, which had to have been so painful as well.

TK: Dude, and her nails are so well done, too. I would have hated – I literally did my nails yesterday. They’re gray, but then sparkly rainbow. You can’t see it cause my fucking camera is not doing the thing. But I would not have wanted to do that!

Lewis: And then Jason wrecked the lab.

TK: As he does.

Lewis: So Greg said something this task that kind of piqued my interest. He mentioned an aftershow support team. And I don’t know if that’s a common thing, but if any show were to
have one, it would be this show. This show does seem just completely psychically damaging. Okay, and then by that point, after this task, Jason had 15 points. And that, “What?!” he said, that was the reaction of a man who was playing to lose. Oh, my phone was on the part of the chair that broke.

TK: He says in the podcast that a lot of times he would just fuck around until he could get Alex to break, and then he was like, “Okay, now we can do the task. It’s already over.” Oh, so funny.

Lewis: I need to take a quick break. Do you want to vamp with the audience for me real quick?

TK: Yeah, I can vamp.

Lewis: Okay, I’ll be right back.

TK: Maybe I’ll get my ukulele out and try try to figure out what the fuck Mat’s chord progression was. Actually not a bad idea. Or I could tell a ghost story, except I don’t really know any ghost
stories. Actually, that’s not true. Okay, so I work at an arts camp in Michigan every summer. This will be my 16th summer working there. I’ve been going for such a long time and there are a ton of ghost stories at this camp and to the point where there’s a few staff members that have been there for a really long time, years, and they will do ghost stories night for the staff and it’s really really very . So there’s ghosts all over the campus. This big campus, ghosts all over the campus. And so one night it was our night off, because this is a seven week long camp. So we have to have a day off, but our day off, it starts the night before your day off so that you can sleep in the staff cabin basically and then sleep in and whatever. And so on our night off, we went out to do ghost hunting and we were like, “All right, we’re going to try to go to all these different places to find the ghosts.” So, we went to a bunch of different places. And then we went to this auditorium that’s huge. Seats 1,200 people, maybe 2,000 people, I forget. And there was a security guard and he was down at the bottom near the stage and we were like, “Man, there’s no ghosts.” And we’ve been looking all night. We keep walking and there’s a barrier between you and the seats, and we walk past the barrier and the guy had disappeared. And this is – you can when you look into the stage, you can see all of the seats. You can see the stage because it has a roof, but there’s no walls around so you can look past the walls basically. And this guy, he had nowhere to hide. We would have seen him in the three seconds that we were passing by the little barrier. And there was nowhere for him to go. And so we were all super hype about this. We were like, “Oh my gosh, the security guard’s a ghost!” And then a minute later he just popped up at the top of the hill, and we were like, “God damn it.” But also, the one ghost that for sure does exist at camp fucking stole my hoodie and I’m still mad about it. Because the goddamn void stole my Nightmare Before Christmas hoodie and for the life of me. I have three in my closet but they’re not the fucking same because they’re not made out of the same material. And I’ve tried to get the one with that had been made out of whatever back in Hot Topic where I got it fucking 18 years ago and I fucking can’t find it because Hot Topic doesn’t renew shit! That’s where I got my hat. I’m going on a rant.

Lewis: Well, I gave you those eBay links to those hats.

TK: I’m just upset. I can get a new hat whenever I want, but it wouldn’t be… This hat has personality. He’s really falling apart, though.

Lewis: It was embarrassingly recently that I only realized that it was Jack Skellington.

TK: Well, yeah, ‘cause you can’t see that it’s fuckin’ Jack Skellington ‘cause his face is melting off. Body horror bullshit. Anyway, Hot Topic, great place to shop, but not great if you want the same thing years down the line.

Lewis: For real. I’ve got some stuff that I got in Hot Topic and I still have them. I had a wallet that I bought in high school from Hot Topic. I replaced it last year, the year before? It was
falling apart already within six months. That Hot Topic wallet lasted me over 20 years.

TK: I have a lot of stuff that I got from Hot Topic years and years and years ago, including this hat, and they have good quality stuff. I don’t know what to tell you. But they just have so much of it, and it just cycles through. I’m upset because – oh, I forgot to hang this. This is a skater dress and it’s Sally, right? But, insert magic noise here. It’s also reversible.

Lewis: Oh, that’s cute.

TK: With the Jack side. I got that at Hot Topic and it’s in perfect shape.

Lewis: My wallet that I bought at Hot Topic was 20 bucks, which even when I was in high school, 20 bucks wasn’t that much money. I went when I got my new wallet, I was like, “Okay, I need to get a good one so it doesn’t fall apart.” I dropped $100 on a Dickies wallet, assuming that Dickies would be the same quality that it was when I was in high school. And no, they are not.

TK: What’s this question in the chat?

Lewis: So how true is Hot Topic?

TK: I don’t understand the question.

Lewis: We are very old.

TK: We are old. We’re as old as this goddamn hat.

Lewis: Basically, I literally only know it from a friend of mine buying nail polish there and from-

TK: Bro, you’ve never gone to Hot Topic?!

Lewis: Two or three of his songs. Okay, so, Hot Topic-

TK: This person might not live in the US. Is it a US only store?

Lewis: I think it might also be in the UK, but I don’t know. But anyway, Hot Topic is… well, there goes that analogy. I was going to say that it’s like Spirit Halloween, but all year. But no, it’s kind of-

TK: I thought you were going to say it’s like Spencers, but more nerdy.

Lewis: I mean, kind of.

TK: But also, they probably don’t have Spencers if they don’t have Hot Topic.

Lewis: I think also, Spencer’s is an English company. But anyway, it’s like your typical Gap, Abercrombie and Fitch, Old Navy, those kind of big box stores that you’d get – but for goths and nerds.

TK: I was literally about to say, but for goths and nerds, so I’m glad we’re on the same wavelength!

Lewis: You can stil,l to this day, get really good clothing there. That’s where you get all they have all these studded belts and they do a lot of alternative wear. The one that we go to when we’re in town actually sells corsets. I don’t know the quality of them, but in my limited knowledge of clothing and fabric and that kind of thing, they look pretty high quality. I wouldn’t say that they’re a daily wear.

TK: I’ve definitely gotten socks, and I think also underwear I may have gotten. So it’s basically like Disney and lots of anime and pretty much anything that’s currently trendy, pretty much, you’ll find there. So, maybe Hot Topic might team up with Taskmaster at some point. That’d be fucking cool. I’d love that.

Lewis: And then you can also get vinyl records there and band merch and-

TK: Lots of t-shirts. They also have a sex toys section, which is… interesting.

Lewis: That’s Spencer’s. I’ve never seen sex toys at Hot Topic.

TK: Oh, you’re right. You’re right. That is Spencer’s.

Lewis: When I was young, they were very similar stores. But these days, Spencer’s is definitely catering to the ‘drinking and weed are my only personality’ types. It’s not worth going in. Hot Topic does have some really good stuff. The leather wallet that I bought in high school. I think I was about 15. I am in my 40s and I only just got rid of it.

TK: They have really good stuff. Highly recommend. [to the live chat] Okay, so I don’t know you live in Germany. I can’t keep up all track of all these people. “You know I live in Germany!” I don’t know shit! “Malls scare me.” You know what, valid. It is kind of a meme.

Lewis: That’s funny. You’re seeing messages that I’m not. Why?

TK: Well, my stream chat started being weird.

Lewis: Oh, ‘cause I had mine set to top and not all. Who wants top chat? [Alex?]

TK: Wait, I don’t want, I don’t want top chat. There’s only two people here.

Lewis: I see 11.

TK: Three… 11?! Oh, I’m not seeing numbers.

Lewis: Well, ‘cause I’m on the dashboard, right?

TK: Anyway, okay. So, let’s get back on track. So we’ve got, “What’s cooking, Baby Boy?”

Lewis: Oh, yes.

TK: Now, let me talk about this live task, Lewis, because – guess what the live task was at the New York City Q&A?

Lewis: This one?

TK: It was this exact task.

Lewis: Oh cool! Tell me more.

TK: So, I was watching it and I was like, “Holy shit! That was the one that we did.” And I was like, “Oh my gosh, I wonder if it’s the same story.” And it is the same story! And now what I really want to do is figure out how far they got in New York, and how far they got on the show, because of course Greg has to stop reading at some point, because that’s where the task ends. But oh my gosh. Okay. So basically what happened was-

Lewis: Is it out of line for me to say that for the first New York premiere someone in our group did an audio recording of it and then released a transcript? Did anyone do that this year? [TK raises hand with a quilty expression] Oh, you did?

TK: Yeah, I did.

Lewis: Of course it was you. I brought my old phone and I was like, this is literally the only reason I’m keeping you around.

Lewis: So you would have that record?

TK: So I do have that record, yeah, so I’ll have to look that up later. I was really excited because I was like, holy shit. So what had happened in New York City was that there had been three people to do – they were all live tasks – but basically the person that won the ‘call Greg’s cell phone’ and then the person that won the ‘fly an airplane into Alex’s open mouth’ and then the person that won… well, they didn’t really, a bunch of people cheated on this. But there was one where Greg was say blue, pink, pink, pink, blue, pink, blue, blue, pink, and you had to hold up the color? It was a memory game, so you had to hold up-

Lewis: Oh, gross.

TK: After he had said like, 70 fucking blues and pinks. It was annoying, because in the task it said like, “You may not record this.” So I took it to mean you’re not allowed to record it on a piece of paper, on your phone. And a bunch of people in the audience had written it down and we were all like, “No, that’s cheating.” And Alex was like, yay. Anyway, the three people that won to the stage for the final task, which was the exact task. So it was Greg reading out the little story. And this is something that I talked to Alex about, because I asked him in my interview for the podcast, who writes those little stories that you read out on the show for the New York premiere? And that’s when he was like, oh, I see what you’re saying. It’s me and usually some member of the crew.

Lewis: I remember that.

TK: So that was really exciting, and the same story, so that was really exciting. And I felt bad for Jason, because I think he would have done really well if he hadn’t-

Lewis: You keep cutting out on me.

TK: -the pins that they had were little ducks. I think in New York City it was for some reason they looked like corn on the cobs to me, but they might have been ducks.

Lewis: They might have been those little handles for corn?

TK: Maybe they were bananas. I forget. But anyway, one of the guys were allowed to keep the pins and one of the guys chucked it in the audience. And I was like, “No, no, no, no, don’t do that!” But it was too late point ‘cause you’re not supposed to throw sharp objects in the audience. Jason just deadpan staring at Greg while he pops the balloons was so fucking funny to me. And then Rosie getting a bit horny for no reason?

Lewis: Yeah, just aggressively flirting, is what I wrote down.

TK: And she was just dancing. I’m like, what the fuck?!

Lewis: Yeah! I didn’t understand either.

TK: Oh my gosh.

Lewis: Elixir says they were ‘Corndles’, so yeah.

TK: Good times.

Lewis: Can we also talk about poor Fatiha during this task?

TK: Oh, I felt so bad for her. She really should have told somebody at the beginning of the series that she had a balloon phobia.

Lewis: I do appreciate as well though that, by this episode, they were made aware, and Alex had obviously brought the ear defenders out for her ‘cause when she asked for him he could hear him say, yeah that’s fair. And then she just chose not to participate, which fine. And I think it was on Ed’s podcast someone said that there’s a third task with balloons and it’s like, oh no. That’s going to have to become one of their standard screening questions. How are you with popping balloons? I would probably – right now just as I’m sitting here, sure, I can handle a popping balloon. I can’t even open the biscuits without screaming. The biscuits terrify me. if everyone were popping balloons around me, no, I’d be so wound up as well.

TK: I think if I knew it was coming, I’d be okay. But I don’t like sudden loud noises.

Lewis: To quote David Baddiel, “Don’t like them go bang.”

TK: Oh, is that who said it? Fuck you, David Baddiel. I’m sorry, David Baddiel is one of the very few Taskmaster contestants I actively don’t like because he’s a transphobe.

Lewis: Yeah, he is, I don’t like him either.

TK: Maybe don’t be transphobic, man. I don’t know what to fucking tell you.

Lewis: But this task was just a nightmare for everyone, though.

TK: Yes. And so here’s the thing that I was thinking. Stevie pops…

Lewis: Jason popped two by accident.

TK: So Jason’s out. The thing that Mat did…

Lewis: Which again, I just don’t think he wanted to win this episode.

TK: Losing my mind. But the thing that Mat did was interesting, because he had popped…

Lewis: He popped the correct balloon.

TK: He had popped the correct balloon, which meant… I was confused because that would have meant that he automatically won, right?

Lewis: It should have done, but I think they agreed to let him throw it.

TK: Like oops, I did this, and now Stevie wins. And I love that you’re doing that, 1. But 2, technically you popped the correct balloon before Stevie did. So by all Accounts, you popping the other balloons doesn’t matter. Because you know what I mean?

Lewis: They obviously let him throw it.

TK: Well yeah, it just was weird because I was like, wait, didn’t he doesn’t that mean that he wins though, why are we talking about this? But Stevie was so upset, so genuinely upset.

Lewis: She had a nightmare this entire episode.

TK: She’d had a horrible episode, she literally looked like she was on brink of tears the entire time.

Lewis: But overall on points, she didn’t do that bad.

TK: Mat throwing that for her was the cutest, sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my goddamn life. So fucking adorable.

Lewis: And then on Jack’s post, that I was reading today, the way he phrased it really confused me at first ‘cause he said that Mat only had five points. And what I didn’t read the first time was five points for the combined filmed tasks ‘cause overall he had 14. And if he hadn’t been disqualified from the song task, he would have won this one as well. And I think that that was what he was trying to avoid doing again. He might not have understood the maths when he said, “Yeah, no, I lose. Stevie wins.”

TK: That’s fair.

Lewis: And he wouldn’t be the first person who had deliberately thrown episodes. Frankie said on Ed’s podcast that he did not want to win. The idea of going up there on stage after the episode was just galling to him. And when you watch you can see him throw several live tasks because of it.

TK: That was very sweet of Mat. I just, oh my gosh, I love him so much.

Lewis: And then Jason never expected to win. You could see on his face, like, why?

TK: Oh my gosh. And the ending bit where he just is so hyped to run up on stage running around. He dumps the glitter all over himself. Destroys the fucking set. So funny. And he has to keep that horrible painting that he wanted to get rid of. Oh my gosh-

Lewis: And Alex having that producer breakdown-

TK: And his hair, you could see all of the glitter in his hair. Gorgeous. I was like, “Bro, that’s a look. You should do that all the time.” And having a breakdown, puts his head in his hands.

Lewis: I hope he’s still covered in glitter next week.

TK: Oh my gosh. I’m so looking forward to that.

Lewis: He found out firsthand why Stevie’s task should have won, it never goes away. I spilled a container of little gems for a diamond painting once – before covid. I am still finding them stuck to my body. That kind of shit just doesn’t ever go away. Every now and then I’ll be like, “What is on me?” And then it’s a little black gem and I’ll show my husband and he laughs. That’s a face.

TK: Sorry, my partner got home and he’s accusing me silently of stealing all the chips. There’s still some in there! Don’t give me that face!

Lewis: Mine came home from work and brought me chips! Chat’s arguing about eating light bulbs.

TK: What? Please do not the light bulb. Who? What is happening?

Lewis: I don’t know.

TK: Oh my gosh.

Lewis: You guys are weird!

TK: Anyway, that was a great episode. I love the lovey-doveiness between Greg and Alex this series.

Lewis: They’re so cute.

TK: Oh my gosh, can’t wait for next week. We’ll do live streams on these because editing is just a nightmare. [at least doing the transcripts is so fucking super easy] So, sorry to the people that have to listen back on this and try to figure out what we were doing. I feel bad for the people that-

Lewis: Oh, you cut out there completely.

TK: Well, heck, I was saying I feel bad for the people that only listen to the podcast and don’t watch it ‘cause you’re missing out on some shenanigans.

Lewis: You are, yeah.

TK: Cat booty.

Lewis: So much cat booty.

TK: Come here, Pilpel.

Lewis: Although live streaming this does mean that I don’t get to do my funny little zooms and notes.

TK: Well, you can do it for the socials.

Lewis: I don’t think I have anything else in my three pages of notes that I took.

TK: Go watch Taskmaster Australia series 4.

Lewis: Oh, have you seen this week’s Horne Section?

TK: I mean, I’ve seen all of them.

Lewis: Oh, you have? We’ll find out. So, yes, we’ll find out.

TK: Sorry, sorry, a while ago, I watched all of them.

Lewis: Because someone did make them available when they hit. Is it all four now? I don’t know what their streaming service is called. It gets a new name every six months.

TK: Just HBO or Max or whatever the fuck it’s called these days.

Lewis: They went back to HBO Max, because nobody knew what the fuck Max was.

TK: Right, good times. Go check us out on Patreon because we are really broke. We do have very cool stuff, we just put out the full super cut of Mark Brown’s video, I think.

Lewis: It wasn’t much longer, but there’s stuff that isn’t in the YouTube upload.

TK: We really appreciate all of your support for that. Listen and subscribe. And also support us on Patreon, thank you very much.

Lewis: Yes please. I can’t think of anything else we need to talk on. I think that’s all of it.

TK: Pretty much covers everything.

Lewis: Thank you guys for hanging out. Thanks for watching. We’re going to do this every week. I don’t know if it’s going to stay on Fridays. This might have been a one-off because I’ve got commitments tomorrow. We might go to Saturday.

TK: And also, uh I’m going to be in Michigan two weeks from now. I will probably have to do it from my phone somewhere.

Lewis: Which is good because I’m handling the live streams.

TK: For like, two weeks. So, you’ll get beautiful Michigan background. If we’re really lucky, we’ll get a-

Lewis: We’ll get a what?

TK: A thunderstorm. I fucking miss those things, man. I hate them. Thunderstorms and fireflies.

Lewis: I discovered last night my least favorite sound in the world. I was sat out front about 2 in the morning, and I heard an ice cream van.

TK: No, thank you. That was the one. That was the one and only thing we heard right after [lockdown] happened and we all had to shut down and stay inside. And we heard this ice cream truck come down the road and of course no one is out.

Lewis: Oh wow. [TK’s audio gives the fuck up]

TK: Anyway, ice cream trucks are what the apocalypse sounds like.

Lewis: They are. They really are. Oh, I know why it’s acting up because it’s 80° in my room. My computer doesn’t like it.

TK: It’s 100° here. It’s ridiculous. Disgusting. Disgusting.

Lewis: I’m up in Portland and it’s not much cool not much cooler up here. I think we’re going to go ahead and end it before we lose TK entirely. So thanks thanks for hanging out and we will see you next time.

TK: Bye!!

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