[Music] Lewis: Oops, there we go, hello! TK: All right, okay great. I'm trying to have the YouTube open, oh there we go. Lewis: Yeah, yeah, there's going to be a massive lag. TK: It’s laggy. Lewis: I think I also built that in. TK: The lag? Lewis: Yeah, I think I put a 5-second delay on it on top of normal latency. TK: Okay, cool. Lewis: Just in case, for whatever reason, we have to quickly dump something. TK: Sounds good. Well, I am in the middle of moving to a new apartment, which is very stressful, and I'm also leaving for camp in Michigan, uh, in a few days, and I will be gone and pretty much offline for two weeks, except for the debriefs. And also tomorrow, at the shelter that I work at, we are having an adoption fee-waived event. So, like, every animal is free. So it's going to be really, really hectic. Yes. And tomorrow is my Friday, so I'm exhausted. So if you can - I have my notes - but if you can please take the lead on this, um, I would be very grateful for that. In fact, I'm going to put my notes on... Lewis: I just only noticed that I'm mirrored, after how many of these? TK: Oh, that's annoying. Yeah. Lewis: That's backwards. Oops! Well, anyway, I've got four pages of notes. Usual caveats apply. I was told that we're doing this today, so by then I was already kind of toasty. So I've got four pages of barely coherent notes. So let's start from the beginning. Greg once again ranting at his mother in his opening. TK: Very funny. Lewis: Love to see it. TK: Yep. Lewis: And then was that Alex intro implying that Alex fucked a turkey? TK: I don't even know. Lewis: That's what I got from it. TK: I also love the implication that Alex has told Greg that this is what his sex life is like. Lewis: I know! It was a brilliant subversion, because usually that joke goes to "Haha, I hate my wife." This one, what?! I don't know if Greg knew where he was going with that. Yeah, like honestly, the first five minutes were chaos, because we- TK: It was. Because then we immediately got sexbot, which was like, what? Lewis: Greg was so angry about that! TK: He's like, "That's the bit, is it? Okay." Lewis: I want to see what was cut out. There were a few things that were obviously cut out. Another one, which came up at the very end during the live task, I want to know what was cut out about Stevie's outfit. TK: Okay, yeah, I wrote this down too halfway through my notes, so my notes say, "Did we miss a Navy-based callback at the top of the show because of what Stevie was wearing?" That's what my notes say. Lewis: I watched it twice yesterday. I think something was just cut out. TK: Yeah, well, they definitely cut something out, because two times Greg said, "Whistle her aboard." And I was like, "Is that a reference to something?" And then at the very end, he was like, "Oh, that's not how they do things in the Navy or whatever." And I think that what happened was that the top she was wearing was a very, like, sailor outfit type of thing. Lewis: It definitely looked like it, but I want to see that conversation. TK: Yeah, I hope we get it in an outtake or something— Lewis: I hope we get a lot of outtakes! TK: —Because I was like, "What is happening?" Like, there's been three callbacks to this thing that they did not reference, so I'm just confused. So that was annoying. 'cause I said, "Did we miss a callback?" Lots of references to it. And then— Lewis: Yeah, like, Alex is on something this series. I don't know what he's got going on, but that whole sexbot / box set thing? It wasn't until I wrote it down that I understood what he was doing. TK: I mean, I understood it, but it's not - because usually when you mess up two words next to each other, it's just the first letter that changes, and not two letters that change. Lewis: Yeah, it was like, what the hell? TK: It was a reach, I think. I mean, I enjoyed it because he knew that Greg was going to comment on it. Lewis: Yeah, and then not long after that, let's get into the next task, you know, the nicest thing to open: Greg's fly. TK: And when he said that, his face went through a whole range of emotions. Lewis: I don't think that was planned. I think he just said something and then realised as he was saying it. Because you usually when he does stuff like that he doesn't try to walk it back. He definitely tried to walk that one back and Greg even called him out on it saying, ‘nice save’. TK: Oh sweet save, I wrote that down. Lewis: I need the outtakes from this episode. TK: Ah yes, yes please. Lewis: I have a feeling there's going to be a moderate amount of fic-talk at the very least. TK: I really hope so. What was I about to say? Oh, brain stopped working, Jesus Christ. I definitely had something to say and then my brain was like "No!” Lewis: Oh, did you get it? TK: That's what it was, it was Jason's hair. I was trying to see if I could find any sparkles. Lewis: Oh yeah I completely forgot. TK: I didn't. Well I did, and then I went back. Yep but I didn't see any sparkles, so good job makeup team because- Lewis: No kidding! TK: That would have been hell to do. Lewis: And then I wrote down somewhere as well… but since we're talking about Jason, he has got the weirdest pair of glasses in studio I've ever seen. TK: You think so? Lewis: Yes because they're navigators, but they've only got the top bar, they don't don't have the lower bar at the bridge of the nose. Yeah navigators are like aviator glasses but for the navigator, and it's just a different lens shape. TK: Okay, if you say so. Lewis: But yeah, usually those type of glasses they've got a top bar up here and then they've got the bridge part like this bit here. He doesn't have a bridge it's just the top bar. TK: Oh I see what you're saying. Lewis: Yeah they're the weirdest glasses I've ever seen. But fuck sake Alex, oh my god. My notes are just full of what the fuck is Alex doing this episode? TK: Yeah that's real and valid. Lewis: So let's get into the first task, the thing that is nicest to open. TK: Greg's fly. He should have said that with more conviction, honestly. Lewis: He should have, shouldn't have walked it back. And then yeah we had a jar-based task here, because Rosie had a jar of gherkins which she could open, Mat had the popup book. TK: Now, okay, are those pickles or what? Am I stupid? Lewis: Yeah, yeah. TK: Okay, it just I was like I don't know what that is. I mean I kind of assumed. Lewis: There’s a larger pickling culture over there but over here pickles are pickled cucumbers or gherkins whereas, you know you don't rarely see someone that's got a jar of pickled onions in their fridge or Branson Pickle which, is the worst. So yeah there was the jar of gherkins- TK: I kind of understood that. Lewis: Yeah which she could open and I can see how that's satisfying. Mat brought the popup book which I think is the best thing anyone has ever brought on the show. Stevie brought a jar of peppers that she couldn't open. Jason had his dog's ashes and Fatiha had a bra, so let's TK: Hell yeah. Lewis: Let's start with the gherkins. TK: Okay I can see where she was coming from, next. Lewis: Next, yeah basically so incredibly route one, but oh my god that popup book. TK: Oh gorgeous, and we will link that actually I think I can so I found… I follow Mat online. Oh wow that sounds awful. Okay I put that in the live chat, if anybody is live chatting. And if you're not live chatting and you're watching this later, then it'll be in the fucking description. So I follow Mat on Instagram, and he posted the Instagram @thisisnathanward is who helped him design the pop-up book, so go check out, I assume, Nathan Ward, because the stuff that he has on his Instagram are gorgeous paperwork, so yes really pretty. But yeah, that Taskmaster book – I mean it was literally perfect. Lewis: It was. TK: Greg was enthralled he was so happy, delighted. Lewis: It was great. TK: Oh and Matt's voice getting higher and higher as he showed off – he was so proud of himself. He's like so fucking smug. He's like "Yes I know this is the best thing and nobody can do anything about it." Lewis: It's up there with Mae's Greg puppet in terms of things that are just amazing that people have brought in, with the added benefit, or plus I guess, of it not being creepy as fuck. TK: But also it's a transformative work, and that's what we're here for. We are literally, literally, here for that – so that was exciting. It was just so pretty, and all of the popups were really cute and I was amazed at the detail that they got in the second page where he's like "Okay is Alex behind the door?" Clearly he's in the bath, but, “is he behind the door?” He opens the door and you can see the little Greg portrait, and all the stuff in the front room. I was like “Jesus Christ dude.” Like this dude really went ham on– Lewis: No kidding! TK: Also for those of you listening in the UK, that book is going to be going up for raffle for charity, so keep an eye out for that. Go to Mat Baynton's Instagram for more details on that. Sadly does not ship – it's only available to people that are in the UK, which I was very upset to find out because I was about to drop a lot of money on raffle tickets. So that's a little bit of a shame. But I get it like overseas shipping is really expensive. Lewis: And there's probably something running afoul of gambling laws, because I think a lot of these are UK only. TK: True. So anyway, let's talk about Jason's dog. Now as an animal care technician, I can tell you – I work a lot with – I guess content warning for animal death and euthanasia. But I'm euthanasia certified and so at work, I have to, pretty much every day, euthanize an animal. At least one animal a day, pretty much. I did a chicken yesterday, which was my first chicken. She was very pretty. She was a golden chicken and she just let me hold her the whole time, and it was very sweet, and she was lovely – So I work with this type of thing a lot. Like the you know, had to get my dog put down and now… Okay, well, first of all, he brought out the cat box and he's like “what is it?” and I'm like “it's a cat,” and I got really excited. He's like “it's a dog.” I'm like no fucking person has ever put a dog in that box, unless that dog is either a puppy, or the world's smallest Chihuahua. That is a cat box okay? That's what we use to put cats in. Lewis: I totally thought it was a Build-a-Bear. TK: And then he opened it and it was like a picture of his dog, very sweet, and then the the thing of ashes, and then the collar. Because sometimes, actually most of the time if somebody brings in a dog, I will ask them, because they don't think to take the collar off, and I'll say “do you want to keep the collar?” Because otherwise it's just going in the incinerator? Is that the right word? The crematorium? Lewis: Yeah the incinerator, or the retort. TK: So I usually I say "Do you want to keep the collar?" Nine times out of 10 they'll say yes. So we'll take it off, and give it back to them. Just a nice momento for them to have. My last cat that we had to put down, I got his ashes back and we buried them under a redwood tree in my in-laws backyard so I can visit him. I I haven't gone back there in a while, I probably should go visit him. But for a cat owner, I mean he never wore a collar, so I don't really have anything of his. I have his favorite rainbow toy. Lewis: Yeah my husband's got his cat's favorite toy out on his computer stand, his monitor stand. TK: So I was very touched by Jason's bringing in his dog, because that's something that's very close to my heart. Lewis: And as Matt pointed out, another jar. Let's talk about Stevie's jar of peppers, which she couldn't open. I could see what she was doing here as well. The problem was she gave it to Greg, who I don't think has ever struggled to open any jar in his life. So I can see him not getting that satisfaction she was expecting. Had she given it to Alex, he might have hammed it up a bit more. TK: Yeah you've got a point, because I don't think that Greg cared. But the problem is that a lot of people were very affected by Greg doing that. Because that was hot as fuck. Lewis: I still think she got something out of it. Just her joke fell flat. If she was going for a joke, she should have given it to Alex. TK: Yeah she missed it by Greg's standards. Again I get what she was going for, and if it had been a different person then yeah probably. Lewis: Yeah I can tell you right now, I do take a weird amount of pleasure from anything that my husband struggles to open, and then if he hands it to me and it's like “it's open”. That look on his face, I love it. And he gets the same thing for me. I struggle with jars because I've got bad wrists, but I also know how to use a knife to open it. So if that fails it's like “please open.” TK: I usually have to find something – The best thing to use is something that's flat and rubber, and then you put the rubber over it. If you use a rubber band, if you put the rubber band, and then it gives you more grip strength. Lewis: The best thing to use is a pipe wrench, because they are a strip of rubber on a handle, and it can be any size you want. Then you just wrench it over. TK: Oh yeah, that’s a good point. Lewis: I keep a pipe wrench in my kitchen specifically for opening jars. TK: Nice. I wrote down for the bra – I wrote down ‘Fatiha is so thirsty with “it's going to blow your mind.”’ That was so funny. Lewis: I can't remember exactly what it was that she said, but she had Alex over there choking to death as well. You could hear him honking in the background. TK: Yeah his little breathy gasps of laughter. Lewis: But she's been relentless about Greg though, you're right. TK: She has yeah. He said something along the lines of – because she said like “I'm a very sexual woman,” and he's like “As is your right, moving on…” He was like “I'm not fuckin’ with this”. Lewis: Wasn't this also when he said that he's starting to feel hunted, or was that later? KT stopping here 19:08 TK: yes no that was Yeah yeah yeah um yeah so that was funny also he mentioned somewhere that he once went on a date with a woman who was a lot stronger than him and then he said that he liked it or yeah he didn't mind it thing is I'm fairly certain that's the story he told in You Magnificent Beast which according to that he didn't like it rip but you know well maybe maybe you guys are all liars yeah so yeah really really strong prize task yeah th this this group like there have been a couple of stinkers but on the whole this is a better group for the uh prize tasks or the presents for Greg as series 17 insisted which that that's still one of my favorite moments ever alex losing his cool during the prize task and shouting they're not presents yep love that yep so what have I got here task number one okay let me read this out alex has an exciting new numbers system so work out what Alex has on the very top of his head the very top of your head must never be more than 5'6 in from the ground you may ask Alex yes or no questions but Alex will only answer them using his exciting new number system first thing off the bat Alex's cardboard cutout was cannon height i don't know if you noticed that i did notice that yeah cannon height alex horn fantastic love it do more of that and for his exciting new numbering system how how quickly did you get it because the first number he said I turned to my husband and it I said it's prime numbers um so I'm not a maths person and so I didn't get it i didn't get it at all because I don't even remember what prime numbers are i think that they are you can't divide them by anything yeah that they're divisible by one and themselves and nothing else the thing is Alex Horne loves prime numbers so I wasn't sure what his numbering system was going to be and then he said a number and Okay so here's here's what my brain did my brain went with So I think Stevie said evens and odds which was not correct but my brain went because I the first number he said was seven and then the second number he said was 58 or no 53 and my brain went 5 + 3 is seven which is one not correct obviously but two my brain skipped past that so fast that it went okay so 5 + 3 is 7 so if the number equals seven then the answer is yes and if the number doesn't equal seven so like obviously it's not correct for multiple reasons um but yeah so then I was trying to figure out like what it could be and then she said evens and odds and I was like oh yeah it is evens and I was like wait no it's not so I didn't I didn't I didn't uh figure that out at all but so I what this reminded me of Yes and you said "Yeah I I turn to him and I go it's prime numbers because he's a [ __ ] nerd." Were the exact words that I said to him that tracks now what I what what this brought to mind for me was a game called four is the magic number have you heard of this no okay i play this at camp all the time so uh give me a number between 1 and 10 seven okay seven is five five is four four is four four is the magic number give me another number between 1 and 10 five okay five is four four is four four is the magic number i'm confused give me a number between 1 and 20 15 okay 15 is seven seven is five five is four four is four four is the magic number i'm so confused okay so spoilers for the answer here it's you take the number of letters in the word and it always goes back to four oh always that's some Alex Horne [ __ ] right there so you you can pick any number and it will always go back to four because four is four and four is the magic number interesting so I I really like that one that's one of my favorites um but yeah uh so that's what that reminded me of now let's talk a little bit about Mat kneeling while reading the tag after he said you have to be you know shorter than the the places his mind goes anytime they tell him to adopt a posture or something i I feel like they did this just for him and it was so funny they just kept putting it in tasks yeah so not only is he kneeling reading the task but he also took both of his shoes off to throw at Alex i don't know if you caught that in addition to him throwing Alex's shoes at Alex and then for the rest of the task he ran around in just his socks yes he's just running around the yard with his socks off and then Alex ve very quietly are you going to pull vault down but also let's talk about Alex's glasses oh I loved those like yeah like he had he had to put on safety glasses dull boring let's put on this see-through acrylic pair of you know chunky nerd glasses i liked that i've always thought that that people that wear see-through glasses are so cool it's like for for me if you can pull off wearing see-through glasses and like overalls like that's like the epitome of coolness to me like I don't feel like I could pull either of those off i check these are not the ones that are see-through i have a pair just like this that look like they're black up close but they're really transparent and see-through and I love them nice yeah I've gone for the Greg Davies glasses look that's my uh Yep so Rosie once again she's done this so many times this series just bumble [ __ ] into the situation mhm cuz I don't think she even bothered with the questions i think she asked one and said "Okay [ __ ] this." And she came first after you know finding a telescope and then finding another one or a periscope and like sometimes she does that and then later on she'll just absolutely [ __ ] another one like she she's inconsistent whereas Fatia her her win this episode was entirely because she was consistent she She got a three in that one in the prize task she got a three in this one and then a three in and then a three in the one where they had to teach Alex a lesson and then I think she got a five in the live task no Jason jason Jason won jason did four there we go yeah okay i didn't write down the prize or the scores for that one anyway so Stevie also bumblefucked on the answer the same way that Rosie did except she didn't know what the answer was and she couldn't figure out like how to use the periscope in the submaravan and didn't realize that what she'd grabbed was also one but I mean to be fair how often are you using a periscope in your day-to-day life for real and then Fatiha was just immediately annoyed called him a [ __ ] right off the base and then she said "Have you got a hat fetish?" And I was like "I don't think there's a hat fetish." Not not not in general but like in for Alex and I was like I don't think that's the correct type of fetish you should be asking him about if whether he has or not and and then I loved her her strategy of just using the snooker queue yeah that was smart where that that also surprised me that she didn't throw the shoes at Alex and then she she complained about them or dissed on them because they had like tissue paper uh oh you all right good lord you did that thing where you froze and then all of a sudden you went tissue paper and I was like "Okay oops." From from my end it was the opposite you froze and then you So yes uh depending on who caught that and who didn't uh she found the tissue paper in the shoes and then had a go at those yeah but this is all coming up to what Jason did which as far as I could tell was [ __ ] all like it felt so oddly edited and I was thinking or wondering at first why was why was his VT in particular so short if he went on for an hour and 45 minutes which I do think is the longest one at this point now and then I realized probably because he spent most of it sat there in that little chair going "Is it a lemon is it a lemon is it a lemon?" Yep what would happen if I jumped over the fence and ran away into the golf course so [ __ ] funny i love that it took until series 11 for someone to do that and then in the same task two people did yep yeah that was I mean I really liked cuz I thought he I thought for sure he was going to like barge into the dome and like tackle the [ __ ] Yeah ladder that he that Alex was on and stuff and he just sat down and asked a bunch of questions i was like th this must have been one of the ones that was just after lunch cuz I've heard a lot of people say this that after lunch their brain just stops and they don't want to do anything and I can see this being one of those where there's a requirement to be short okay I'm going to sit down cuz that's easy and now I have to ask questions and work out what the answer is based off of a system that I'm not being told how it works i Yeah but oh my god his tasks taking forever is my favorite thing please go longer i I want to see him break the twohour mark and there's four episodes left anything can happen yes so he Oh I wrote I wrote the scores down backwards for this one but he came fifth so we only got one point after 223 questions that's what a waste and I I love that how I don't know if Alex was there writing them down because he used to that used to be what he did with the clipboard was he would write down anything they said he probably couldn't yeah because he needed to focus on health and safety of his own person and then once he got hold of the periscope Alex was so catty with him oh it looked like you almost had it like he he is he and Jason are at war at this point and he he did this a couple of times especially in studio just said the most sarcastic catty response to anything Jason said mhm and like Yeah we we'll we'll get to that in the next task as well cuz I had some notes on this one um but also I enjoyed Alex listing the things that Jason has called him over the series which had to get bleeped out so that's fantastic and then yeah this task went on for so long that he forgot to answer in numbers toward the end yeah yep yeah he was slipping he was but I mean after that long I'd forget to yeah yeah all right what's the next task so the next one there's not enough room on my desk for that okay the next one is make yourselves look like one of you is the parent of the others then capture your relationship with a classic home video moment and I just want to say that uh the one with Matt and the girls reminded me of every Christmas I had as a child just there was something weird about the vibe and the fact that you know not everybody was happy to be there looked like so many of my Christmases i loved Fatiha's performance of that because she I was expecting her to say something and she was just so grumpy the whole I was like this is peak [ __ ] comedy right here um yeah it was I mean and then the whole like the whole subversion of like okay I'm going to give your I you know I I love you both equally and she and like like it's clear that that she always wants whatever the person has so it's like okay and it's like oh sweetie do you want this ring oh you And then she just [ __ ] chucks that scooter so [ __ ] funny oh my gosh i loved it it it reminded me of like Dudley Dersy Dersley vibes was like like I want everything that I can't have just like yeah okay and then I've written down something that I can't read um and that's why I type i I put what's with all the hairy women yeah because not only did they put the girls and beards in that one which was brilliant Jason and Stevie there we go or as they Steven and Jaci yeah well I I was reading uh JV Mark Zukas and then Yeah that was really cute and then Yeah from what I got from uh that was just Jason wanted to either play in the toilet or play in traffic those were his only two contributions but I I loved that with you know the the way they uh switched the gender roles so Stevie was the dad and then Jason was the little girl yeah that was cute and he looks really good in that dress i liked that oh also I loved what they did with Fatia with the wig in the bonnet that was so cute as well yeah that was ridiculous i mean she's like every episode that we see her in the studio she's just so pretty i can't believe how pretty she is it's not fair like every time yeah and then like sparkly eye makeup is also like I can't pull that off but I'm the people that can i'm always so jealous i'm going to a standup thing tonight and I expect to see an amount of sparkly eye makeup excellent i' I've worked out what I said uh what I wrote down where for for the ad break after that one or during that one where Gre Greg again just calls Alex a pervert and I've forgotten the full context of that one yeah as he is want to do yeah just always taking shots at Alex it was a very I mean weirdly considering it's his show but it was a weirdly Alex-heavy episode mhm cuz he also got used in that task where he was just hiding in the bushes cuz he liked the hairy girl which Yeah see I have a problem with this and maybe I've read too many Stephen King books but have you ever read Dolores Claiborne i I have i couldn't tell you anything about it okay so this is a content warning for lots of stuff uh pedophilia incest noncon I guess i mean it's Stephen King it's going to be [ __ ] up yeah i mean he wrote So he wrote a series was it only the two books it was Dolores Claiborne and was the first one I think and then the second one was Gerald's Game which if you have never read or watched Gerald's Game I cannot in good conscience recommend it because as because although it is a very wellwritten story I think that what Stephen King did was when he sat down to write it is he got out of and he just listed the top trigger warnings that he could off like all of the top trigger warnings that he could think off top of his head and he came up with about 30 or 40 and I'm like not making up these numbers like I I need to I need I'm not exaggerating these numbers like I can tell you I won't because I don't because it's a lot but I could tell you like 20 off the top of my head for Gerald's game because there are a lot it's like every single possible thing that's awful and horrible and like just is in that book but it's a good book but don't read it well that that was like when I was 10 and my aunt gave me a copy of it a big hardbound copy no and told me "Don't read this at school." And don't read it period that thing is hard as an adult that was my favorite movie when I was around that time the one with Tim Curry i mean it is a good movie and so the book is the book is hard to read and told me not to read it not to read it at school so I was reading at home and I'm like I okay I don't really see the problem here so I took it to school and that was the day that I had four of my friends reading over the should my shoulder as a bunch of children had an orgy in the sewer yeah that's so Yeah I mean Stephen King much like George RR Martin is his own trigger warning yeah that's true i mean so now tr like caveat Stephen King is my favorite author and I've literally read every single one of his books and that's why I read Gerald's Game because I was like I I can't not read one of his books but in Dolores Claiborne and and he also does this in another one of his books i think it might be a short story uh and I cannot for the life of me remember which one it is but um I'm not going to get into it because of the trigger warnings but I didn't like how how they portrayed Alex in this because how it reminded me of those stories and I I it just made me uncomfortable and I was like I get what you're trying to do and I get that it's all for but like I don't know like for me like pedophilia is one of the things that I cannot like watch or read about or like just any mention of it in any kind of reference it it's just it's too much for me like yeah like that that was a weird choice especially having him there in a vest which seemed like either far too big for him or intentionally stretched out cuz it didn't fit him but yeah that that was odd and then what what I especially enjoyed about that though was that all of a sudden after just learning how to ride a bike the little girl is just magically an expert looks it after him chasing into traffic that was really funny i did like that i I was pleased to see that they do still have the blue BMX though cuz they did I feel like they did a B bike task recently where the blue BMX would have been better but they were using that big road bike well they did what was it was it series 11 with VCM she was 12 but it was past that because she did use the blue BMX and she accidentally stumbled on the correct way to do that task cuz the whole point of a BMX Wait was it Sophie's Sophie Duker's was Was that the one Alex was riding around the tree oh no that was a trike no there there was a fairly recent one I think where they needed a bike and they had two road bikes because the whole point of the BMX is that it changes your center of gravity and if you ride it properly you can wholly stop and just be stopped without your feet on the ground on a BMX and Victoria kind of bumble [ __ ] upon that because the road bike looked scary which fair and I think that you know had Guz especially taken the BMX he would have done better and like the reason why Allan did well on the road bike is because he did a lot of like skateboarding and bicycle riding so he did already know how to do that kind of thing he's just you know old and rickety at this point yeah yeah and then Greg saying in regards to Alex he's like the book I'm going to write one day yes please but actually we would all love to read a book about Alex from Greg's point of view i you Yeah it would be so so insane and then and then we have the teach Alex a lesson he'll never forget task which like why are why that's just the whole point okay or the whole task um I love dissing on him for going to Cambridge and studying classics yeah that was funny he's like "Yeah of course he would of course he would." It's like "Are you surprised at this point?" So let's go with Rosie just strip him throw his pants down that was weird not Not putting his pants down that was normal so I think she must be on Reddit because I have seen these videos that they usually come out of Asia um but I've seen more than one where the teacher had all of the children in their seats with balloons behind them teaching them how to clean themselves seems really odd especially from a Western point of view but then again how many men go out there with [ __ ] all over their asses because wiping is gay [Laughter] ridiculous like yeah like I I I know exactly what she was doing and then she just went insane and rubbed it all over Alex's face whatever it was yeah nutella or something and then Mat just water tortured his ass all right can we Can we Can we Can we talk about Mathew Baynton for a second because holy [ __ ] i have I have said it on this podcast before and I'm going to continue to say it but Mat he can he can waterboard me any day i mean Jesus Christ wait what where where did he even get that [ __ ] wig from and I was like and I'm like I this is so stupid and weird but it's weirdly doing it for me like I don't It had such a vibe of like that you know horrible history drunk history thing that he that he used to do where he just decided to be this insane caricature and yeah like this kind of thing especially is where he shines because that's what he does is insane characters him him playing like this bad guy nerd with the fighting an apple and stuff i was like I cannot deal with this like what what is happening i love so much you can't waterboard somebody for getting an answer right that's not how That's not how this works take a rewarding dunk in the ice water that's not how the amount of people that have tortured Alex with water at this point yeah yeah like cuz Sally waterboarded his ass and then Katie W Chinese water tortured him yeah if you need if you need someone to keep government secrets Alex Horne is your man and that's the title of this episode alex Horn is I think I haven't changed the title for the last one yet oh well whoops oh yeah um but yeah so that was just ridiculous uh who should we talk about next um Stevie stevie yeah who also stripped him yep it's about time get so thank thank you for that and then the writing all now I this is a very niche show that you probably haven't heard but if if you've heard of um Blue-Eyed Samurai I think that's what it's called uh anyway it's on Netflix and it's really good but it basically it's about a um it's about a girl who becomes a samurai but like you're not supposed to be a girl if you're a samurai and she kind of gets away with it because her mentor is blind um yeah oh yeah and um but yeah everybody in like the country is supposed to be um like from the country like they've but yeah Chinese like they've put a ban on what japanese sorry um I can't hear through my headphones my partner's like "You [ __ ] dumbass." Tell tell the story right you [ __ ] idiot um yeah so anyway so like the she has blue eyes because uh her father was a white man so like she's already an outcast because of that sorry someone's screaming outside my apartment that's good love that probably screaming at me forgetting the show anyway so but there's this one scene where she writes she like strips off naked and then she writes on like every single part of her body i forget why um she was probably writing that a shrimp's heart is located in its head you're so right um but yeah that's what that reminded me of because she she she did it I think in like with like a paintbrush and like ink you know um so like the the big ink pen that Alex was using really reminded me of that so that was cool well I love that cuz she she gave Stevie gave him privacy to take off his shirt and then later it was like well it looks like it's the trousers as well and I want to know how long that was on him because surely they've learned their lesson since Lee Mack scribbled all over Alex's thighs don't put permanent markers where the children can find them cuz he all over his face as well i wonder if there's a shower in the house um so someone recently posted I think it's in uh the newer book which I still don't have um it's just taking forever to get to me apparently the there's a floor plan of the house and it's different from what I've actually observed in the house because they have a camera closet that's definitely a bathroom and then there's also a shower room which is where Lolly hid she hid in the shower which is not in the bathroom yeah although whether it's usable I I imagine it's got some use over the years yep uh so that was cute uh Fatiha's dancing lesson was ultra cute i loved seeing Alex dancing around like the stick figure white boy that he is i I love trying to Well she she was trying to teach him how to shake his tits and then he goes "I haven't got those things." Yeah yeah yeah that was that was Oh my god but I have heard from other contestants that he is really good at quickly picking up dance routines and nailing them but I guess he would he would have to be because of that one task in the church from series 14 12 the one where they have to copy Alex right yeah yeah no uh but the one I was thinking of was the one in four where they all had to do a dance to a ringtone oh yeah cuz Yeah like he like they had to do those and then there was the one in 15 where they danced for his wedding yeah yeah but yeah I also loved when they threw to Fatiha Greg just quietly saying "Oh god man." So where did I go oh Jason's way down here okay i have written a lot so Oh yeah here's another thing about Fatia you are encouraging and I wanted to please you mhm i mean surprising nobody that That's Yeah nobody no what and then we had Jason who teaches Alex to be assertive that was I think and correct me if I'm wrong the most we've ever seen Alex swear on Taskmaster yes i I I'd wager that there's a couple of horn section podcast episodes where he goes a bit hard oh I'm sure yeah but on Taskmaster specifically this was this was it I think cuz the the the other one that I can remember in uh what was his name it's the guy I don't like mana sorry Ma oh yeah [ __ ] sake yeah yeah when Mana was like trying to throw something into his hat or something like that but yeah so um so yeah this was a lot this was like a lot of swearing and I wrote down like holy [ __ ] what I wrote down is that his first go is what everyone says Alex Horn is like the second go is either the band leader in a incredibly [ __ ] mood or Qrs Tuvwxyz's the return of Qrs we love to see it but yeah like I wrote down some of what he think some of what he said was uh the tea was the wrong shade for lunch he wanted goose and jelly and then the lab was freick to [ __ ] that was amazing which I feel like that would have been the title if they allowed themselves to use swears in the title cuz that was so good yeah and then him going "What the [ __ ] is this?" Yeah to the and then and then Jason being like I don't remember what Jason said but Jason says something and Alice just goes "Fuck you." So good like how much of that though was just pent up annoyance that he finally got to got to put out there in the world i mean controversial opinion i genuinely think that Alex is a sweetheart 100% of the time and I think that at at least when it comes to his um the people that he works with or that work under him I guess more specifically I think he's I think he really respects them and doesn't really get cross with them that's what I think like the first one felt genuine if not like more if that makes sense like he's just playing up what his uh reputation is basically yeah and I I listened to Ed and Emma Sidi on the Taskmaster podcast and I forget on YouTube lately which is annoying me it's it's up oh I I keep not seeing it i mean they only put it up a couple hours ago oh um but yeah they were saying that like Alex genuinely that with the thing where he's like "Yeah just whatever's convenient whatever everybody else is having that." Yeah I was like "Yeah I can definitely see that." Also I like how Greg I like how Greg was saying "This is going to [ __ ] your brand to Fatiha because she was being nice." I was like "That's really funny." And then we we had uh one of the ad breaks here the last one where Greg accuses his uncle of using weird [ __ ] as foreplay i.e the prizes which Yeah Greg come on man and then as a random note um I don't know if you saw the same ads that I did but is I didn't watch I didn't watch live because I had a Well I didn't either i just watched it on uh on what do you Wait you watch it with ads oh on channel 4 oh yeah i don't do that yeah on the um I keep wanting to say replay catchup that's the one mhm but no um is Ivo doing tequila ads can someone please verify that for me because it sounded a lot like him that'd be funny yeah like I I don't know i I wrote that down because it really stuck in my brain and then what do we have here okay oh yep so there we go fatia got five on that one jason got four and then the rest got three mhm so I mean it was a solid task it was I loved it what What That's funny though cuz that is word for word a task I've had in the back of my mind that I just never got to use in a f anywhere i think didn't they also do it with Oh no i'm going to forget which one this was so it was either New Zealand Australia maybe it was the one Rhys Nicholson was on which one was that australia yes okay then yeah it was teach Tom a lesson he'll never forget and Rhys I don't remember what anybody else taught him oh I think m was it Ketta taught him how to put on makeup or something was that Coachetta i forget um but Rhys taught him how to tuck and it was amazing because he was like cuz to cuz Tom was like what like like not understanding the word and Reese was like uh I think teach you how to tuck and Tom was like to tuck oh to tuck oh okay yeah yeah i love Rhys's non-binary representation they're amazing and so so uh well-dressed all the time oh my god i know every single one of their outfits was fantastic mhm i I I also loved how there was one task where greater Tom was like talking about something that had already happened or was about to throw to a VT and Reese was just so giddy over having the Taskmaster use their correct pronouns yeah yeah and there were a couple I think that's something that we didn't really see at all in series yeah was discussion about pronouns because in Rhys's series there were quite a few like call backs to their gender where they were like where they were like oh just because you're like a straight white man means you can you know say [ __ ] about whatever I like no um and then like I think like Tom leer Tom misgendered him accidentally and then fixed himself and Rhys made a joke about it or something but I really I really like seeing that like don't get me wrong I do enjoy when everything is edited to seem like no one has ever been misgendered but I'm sure that people [ __ ] up but I did really like how they did put that in the edit i I I appreciated that a lot because you will mess up and it's okay yeah and then we have the live task which is another one honey pie yes honey pie we got a honey pie that was cute and then Alex responded with I just like the hairy girl are you leaving where are you going can you bring me something oh okay i thought you were going to Takaria extra okay love you bye sorry so the live task don't blow the last thing off the table if you don't blow anything off the table you are eliminated if you do blow the last thing off the table you are eliminated you must stay on the spot you must not touch the table good [ __ ] grief yeah I liked this one yeah so they started out with feathers and this was where I started to know or this is where I noticed that they had definitely cut something about her outfit yeah yeah and then I really I I do really hope that they put up somewhere because I was so confused i mean eventually I kind of figured it out but the whole like whistle me on I was like "What the [ __ ] are you talking about but once again Alex was just so [ __ ] during this task mhm uh cuz dur during the feathers um whoever went before Matt left two feathers on the uh tape or on the corner all stuck together and Alex goes "Easy there's two of them." And yeah like I love so much that he is being more in a character instead of not being a character at all like the little Alex Horn character is so [ __ ] weird to begin with but I love this new snarky version of him where he he's not afraid to say things yeah i mean this se this whole series is he's been in a mood it is a lot and it is making me very scared for next series because again the whole the the only thing I'm going to be thinking the entirety of next series is Alex has just talked to me about fanfic and now he knows all the insider secrets oh my god there there's you're going to get a specific call out watch he's gonna name drop you on television listen if he does that I will be thrilled i'm I'm betting that he won't but if he does I'm gonna [ __ ] lose my [ __ ] but if he said if if he even says something like "Alex horn do not read." I'm going to be like "Bro you did not just do that." Oh no oh man and then we have the most out of pocket thing Greg's ever said when it's pictures of Greg and the first thing he says is blow me Jason blow me Jason like there there was no room to even hang on that just he said it no one reacted everyone goes forward man bro that is going to be a fick yeah you going to write it like do you even have to ask now the annoying thing okay I wasn't going to bring this up but now you've said something so I am going to bring it up but I So we were talking about how earlier earlier in the episode Greg felt like he was being hunted right so I wrote a I wrote a little fic about that and like okay here's the problem i wrote it it's done i could post it whenever but I'm going to camp for two weeks and so I have been pre-writing this really long fic that was originally going to be 19 chapters and is now two 21 chapters so because I've been writing I've been posting at least one fic a day because you're and I want because I'm Yes and I want to keep doing that throughout the rest of the year and so far I'm on track to do that and so this 21 chapter fic which I will probably finish tomorrow um and I've started posting it it's about the Alex clones, so there's a there's a Qrs Tuvwxyz cameo in there uh so this is getting me through camp but the problem is when I get back from camp I'm going to still need to be posting stuff which again is fine but I'm going to be moving to a new apartment during and going to Poland and going to Poland in July so I have to pre-write more stuff so that I can keep my streak consistent so I'm like do I write these prompts and just not post them until later or do I not post my my long chapter fic every day and I post it every other day like I day but then that makes my life harder because then I have to write more i love it when you go on long rants because that's always when it cuts you off oh for [ __ ] sake that's the computer telling me to shut the [ __ ] up but the point is I don't know what to I don't get me wrong I love writing i love but like some days I just need a break so like days like tomorrow where the shelter is going to have this dayong you know promotional thing where I have to you know be on call like consistently all day and just be like go go go tomorrow's going to be great because I can just post chapter 3 and be done with it and not have to think about writing a new fic and posting it so I just need a break I think you know oh my god take one so anyway but I will not be giving myself a break even when I'm in Poland I will be posting a fic a day god help me okay well Stevie [ __ ] the photos of Greg basically she blew twice like just very deliberately blew twice and then realized What was the What was the thing she did earlier with that she did that in in another um She did that she did that another time in like the first was the Pealympics cuz she like put the pea under the pillow and she was like [ __ ] it's like girl you are sabotaging yourself and and you're making me look really bad because I had pegged you win and now you're like really falling and now like here [ __ ] Matt is taking the win which again Love that for him love that for me love that for everybody but like I mean I pegged Rosie or not Rosie, Fatiha to win so that's really funny to me i my thought process was that she was going to not care enough that she just kind of floated through the way Sarah Millican did cuz she came so close to winning and she I think she even said on the podcast that it wasn't until she realized she was winning that she started messing up cuz Yeah we we very clo we very nearly came came to be in a universe where she won instead of Dara. that would have been something yeah yeah i I don't know i mean Mat is ahead as we know in the scores and I am delighted for him and then he had an early out with those feathers yeah the annoying thing about liking Mat is that he's a white man a white cis man and it's like we we need fewer of those in in the Hall of Champions yeah because there's a lot there are a lot and again love them all but make some let's let's get some representation over here you know and then the third one were the whiffle balls where Yes i think Rosie [ __ ] it by just blowing them all off didn't she i think so yeah which not a lot went on in that round except for that um and then we had the cocktail umbrellas those were so cute i love those things i used to collect those as a kid so I wrote down a couple of quotes here one is that Greg said he can't believe this is watchable but it's incredibly watchable and that is insane why am I watching people blow feathers off a table and getting into Emma on the podcast says or maybe Ed says I always forget who [ __ ] says what but one of them says like you can play that at home and it's like Yeah maybe like maybe that's why it's watch maybe that's part of why it's because you can see yourself doing it yeah like Ed always or frequently likens it to like watching a sport and it's a sport that you would see on the OO just something unhinged and no one else plays it but it's your favorite thing on television like in a lot of ways Taskmaster is in the same league as chess boxing like nobody's seriously playing it except there are some very serious players yeah yep and then the other one I have is when I I I think he said this to Jason uh that was nearly two breaths and it was just one breath which Yeah I guess that was so funny oh my gosh just Yeah that That's one of those That's one of those occasions where you're just like "Shut the [ __ ] up man." Yeah he's so obnoxious oh like he loved to see it i I I think I've pinned down like what it is that cuz like people have is the kitty she twitching oh she's she's sleeping and dreaming and twitching she's so sweet i won't wake her up but maybe after we're done talking I'll bring the camera over what was I just saying um Oh yeah i've worked out what it was or what it is i think cuz I think it's fair to say that a good number of people in our Discord have reacted to Alex by saying that they want to grind his face into the dirt or they want to kick him down the stairs and it's something adjacent to cute aggression and I think what it is is he's just so [ __ ] obnoxious that if he were a real boy and if that was someone you actually had to deal with you probably would respond to them with violence right yeah but you know because he's little Alex Horne it just everything that see he says that sparks these emotions anything you could do to him well he's Alex he'd like it yeah that's true and then what an episode man it was Fatiha just misplayed and took herself out but she won and she was so surprised at winning she had to be told to go up on stage yeah well so we've had Mat won the first three which is insane then Jason won last week stevie I think no Rosie rosie rosie won so Matt Matt Matt Rosie Jason Fatiha okay so we're just waiting on Stevie which means Stevie is the only one to not win yet i'm I'm gonna laugh so hard if Stevie joins the losers club yeah anyway let's check the league table so for this episode we had Fatiha on 20 uh Jason and Rosie on 18 Mat on 16 and Stevie on 14 and then for the overall series Christ okay well it is it is tightening up which good i I love tight series i don't like it where someone's obviously winning so we've got lowest is Jason and Stevie on 84 each, Fatiha's got 88 Rosie's got 93 and Mat's got 100 whoa like those are some pretty good scores mhm and at this point yeah Mat's very catchable he had a couple of bad tasks these last couple of weeks and I mean he's going ham on the prize task because as he said in his episode with Ed on the podcast he knew that he did poorly on the filmed task so he wanted to make sure that he did well prize that's control point yeah and the the ones that tend to do the best I think are the ones that really understand the prize task that that is where you have the best opportunity you know what's coming you have an idea of what everyone else is going to do to an extent you have time to prepare yeah like if you do poorly on the prize tasks that's a you problem yeah that's true and like I feel like the prize tasks especially were what really helped Mae and what really helped Dara. They both had amazing prize tasks pretty consistently like even the ones that were weird Andy Zaltzman too right yeah cuz what what helped with Zaltzman is that he he's kind of part of that I guess social group so he knows Greg's humor and he knows how to play into that kitty cat welcome to my apartment that I'm no longer going to be thank goodness this is some horror movie [ __ ] yeah what you say you saying something oh she is big stretchy ah Rubby rubby look my nails match her oh that's cute so So the kitties have been taken to a rescue she's She's My cord is like on her get out of here get No yeah the kittens went to a rescue on Monday oh the babies we we we told that neighbor kid to come pick them up at 8 uh they showed up around two so hi baby i mean you know could have been worse say hi to the people okay sorry she wants nothing to do with you yeah all right i'm going to do a I'm going to do a little strip tease for you because uh well you'll find out but um because I'm going to camp and I'll be at camp for the next uh couple weeks you're going to see me without this shirt anyway um but this shirt that I'm wearing underneath is legitimate today so go to go go go go go to the uh the Horne Section website and order yourself some merch babies because the new Horne Section shirts are here let's go and they're very comfortable and they're soft and they're notic they're long yeah lots of eyes [ __ ] eldritch monstrosity over here it is yeah so yeah I did my laundry yesterday and I was like I today because it's like legitimately one of my new favorite shirts but it's it's amazing i like it a lot and also I can only wear black shirts because I sweat profusely well you know black actually shows it up more mhm it's white you should But yeah like the the little trans colors i love it i love that yeah it's really good somebody this uh older gentleman at the shelter who volunteers for like "What does your shirt say?" I was like "Oh here we go." I was like "Is this is this the Horne Section?" He's I'm like "It's the band." He's like "Oh what kind of do they play?" I was like "This is comedy jazz." And he's like "Oh." I was like "Yeah." How do you [ __ ] explain what the Horne Section is man like I didn't get it at first um baby oh I don't even know what it was that made that made it click i think it was the television program that I wa it got recommended to me on YouTube so I watched it and I was like "Oh I get this now." Cuz previously I'd only ever really seen them on like Cats Down or the random odd appearance that you know they do on the show and it was just what the [ __ ] is this kitty cat kitty cat gonna eat your wires please don't do that i I I saw forming in her head oh yeah um it'll be interesting to see what my new setup looks like when I move so fingers crossed that it's gonna be okay i'm just perpetually in this it's a pretty decent microphone cuz but also like if Jesus if I need to I can always Mat Baynton call me i love him so much i am obsessed with him don't bite me sorry she's like "To be fair you were slapping my butt." Hi see I I I'm obsessed with color everything I have is some kind of wild bright color i've got two of these see red blood red is my favorite color of all like all of the stuff like my lunchbox my car my uh carabiners like everything that I can possibly like own is either black or red they match both my pairs of headphones actually as well yes which is great because um no bite no bite no no um yeah because when I the college I went to our colors were red and black which was hilarious because my high school colors were green and white my high school colors were green and purple and oo magic colors i was of an age where green and purple were baby Barney colors and everyone hated it yeah I guess that's true well my new field or new my uh my high school was the Newfield Trojans i see what they're getting at but you know high schoolers are going to make all the jokes and I always was very upset because I always wanted cat mascot or at least some kind of an animal mascot but that mountainsfield mountaineer [ __ ] stupid my junior high mascot was a Seahawk which no skyhawk and I remember that everyone got it confused with Seahawks which are the Seattle football team and then my And then my high school mascot were Timberwolves Cat Butt i heard that [Music] sprungly and she had kind of as a joke the producer for all of the um theater productions was Harry T wolf and we started a joke it was because because like our mascot was Harry Wolf and we started this joke that only existed in the drama department at first where the the the whole backstage area was haunted by this guy that went cow tipping where the school now sat and the cow tipped over on him and killed him like it never happened we made this [ __ ] up just to explain all the weird [ __ ] that happens in a backstage area the thing is that joke let like broke containment and at least the last time I was over in that area people genuinely believed it had happened like it was just a [ __ ] post some you know drama kids made up and now everyone believed that it had happened it's like oh okay cool that's how misinformation spreads spungo says their college was also black and red i see that what was my college the best colors black and red i want to say it was orange and something and our mascot oh so you went to Syracuse University you know Syracuse University their mascot is like an orange like fuzzball but nobody really knows what it is is it like I need to look I need to look this up what's his name gritty like him [Music] yeah we were the penguins otto the or Oh oh oh it's literally Otto the orange but like it doesn't look like an orange because he has face [ __ ] oranges don't have faces so it's like I don't understand but also like Cornell University their mascot is um I'm going to get his name wrong and my best gonna kill me for this uh I want to say his name is Big Red because it's a bear isn't it is the bear called Big Red i'm The reason I am Oh [ __ ] it's Yeah his name is Touched but the reason I'm bringing Cornell up is because my whole family or used to work there at least including myself um and I could have gone there for free because my parents worked there but I didn't because I wanted to be a music major waste of my time i don't regret it though uh yeah ours were penguins up there in the [ __ ] Cascade Mountains i mean no one no one understood why penguins like I mean I like penguins we could have been like you know moose or bears or mountain moose would be [ __ ] dope right i would love to be [ __ ] moose oregon doesn't have any moose but Washington does interesting well I mean Oregon's farther south washington is bordering Canada but we do have moose in Washington we've got Wolverines we've got all sorts of [ __ ] and half the time I hear them outside my window yeah i grew up in the middle of upstate New York so the forest and we had lots of coyotes and foxes and stuff hi did Did you learn the same thing that I learned that if you hear a woman Yeah I sure [ __ ] did yeah if you hear a woman in the woods screaming No you didn't yep get the [ __ ] out of there yep that's what I learned hey girly learned how to shout at bears and all sorts of things oh we never had bears although I I [ __ ] love a bear i love a bear uh I Okay I could talk about bears for a really really long get into that right now because we're this is not what the podcast is um but like I have a whole thing with that one of the um group chat people designed for me which I really love uh and but anyway I did run into some bears when I was living in North Carolina and um the the the one and only time I have this was because I got in my car you're major cutting out ah [ __ ] don't do this to me live stream i need to tell my bear story tell your bear story okay maybe up close maybe that's why it's cutting out so I wake up like eating the [ __ ] microphone so I wake up i go out to my car my Prius this is important that it's that it's a Prius and uh and I go out and I get in my car and I look over and there is a mom and two babies on the other side of my car and I was like "Shit [ __ ] shit." And I start up my car hoping that that's going to scare them away but it [ __ ] doesn't because it's a Prius and Priuses are the quietest [ __ ] car in the world so I'm sitting there like "Please move away from my car i need to go to work." And I was like so scared because they were literally right on side of my car and the only reason they didn't see me was because my car is so [ __ ] quiet so then I but it was a gravel or a gravel driveway so then I started backing up and they were like "Oh time to shuffle off." So then they like shuffled through the the [ __ ] like um uh yard and like and then I just like saw them like rambling down the road like into other people's yards and I was like Jesus Christ so I I got to work and I was like well I'm awake yeah around here we kind of have the same problem that Yellowstone has spungo says "I like bears personally i prefer twinks." A+ joke for real but we we have a kind of issue here where there are bearproof trash cans that you can get to keep the bears and the raccoons and all the other varmints out of your trash uh the problem is that the bears can often get into those more easily than the people who own them can and so people will buy these trash cans realize they're a major faf and then just never lock them anyway yeah so my best friend who introduced me to Taskmaster he just messaged me and I'm going to read his message in full he said "So Fatiha at first came across as one of those I don't give a [ __ ] I don't want to be here players which I usually don't like but her confidence and sass towards Greg is awesome and every episode I enjoy her that's what we like to see man i saw that she was on the cast list and was just overjoyed because I knew exactly how she'd behave and she has not disappointed I I do find it hilarious that she is got 10 weeks to relentlessly hit on Greg i imagine by the end of it he felt like he had to run because yeah like just on Big Fat Quiz for you know that record which I've heard that goes about four or five hours that you know she was constantly all over Jimmy Carr as well and I do find it hilarious that she never did that to David Mitchell because that's one thing I'd love to know and it's it's on our question document is I really want to know from a contestant standpoint how much the two stack up next to each other because The Outsiders is frequently build as a Taskmaster knockoff but I don't really think that it is i mean they're the same genre of put celebrities in a predicament and watch them have a mental breakdown but like it's an unusual genre but Taskmaster wasn't the first spango says "This is the episode I fell in love with Fatiha her being genuinely so sweet to Alex to dance." Yes yeah I Yeah I agree with that that was so wholesome and I loved it so much yes and also like for some people dancing is like really really scary uh cuz you know you grew up with really low self-esteem and lots of body issues etc and dancing is one of those things where like you have to put your body out there and it's terrifying so her being really patient with him was very sweet have I told you about my dance class rebellion in high school oh no so the there there's I went to a brand new high school like I I was the I was in the first class that went to through all four years of high school at this high school i think it had been open a year before I went there and they hadn't quite got everything ironed out so we had you know the uh the requirements to take so much PE and or health and there was some weird legal loophole about how the classes had to be constantly updated to contain like the newest science information something I don't know but that meant that internally in the computer every year that health class had a different code it was the same class but the computer saw them as totally different ones and so it was me and this group of about three or four other absolute [ __ ] who decided or who noticed this because I stumbled upon it cuz you know my sophomore year I was filling in my classes and I saw that health was still available to me and it hadn't been taken off the list like all of the other classes that I'd already taken had so I was like what's going to happen and so I decided to take that health class again as had a few other people and so we're just in the back of the room going "Oh hey this is the same class i still have my homework cuz I you know I didn't throw anything away." So we just decided to yeah okay we're just going to do this we already know it if I don't have the homework I can roughly remember what I put on there and that was that come here comes my junior year and oh that health class is still there i'm going to see if it'll let me take it mhm get to the health class oh haha you're here and just once again and by then the teacher realized wait a minute what are you clowns doing back cuz I had to deal with you all last year eating lotion and chapstick back there like a bunch of [ __ ] idiots oh my gosh and so they finally fixed this issue and I still had one more PE class to go and I couldn't take health and I [ __ ] refused to take PE and then I noticed that there was a dance class that I could take and it was half dance half yoga and so I go in here and look it's all of my fellow [ __ ] have also noticed that this class looks absolutely stupid and so easy to get through and yeah like the the apparently the teacher for that one she kind of had been given a heads up look there's a bunch of idiots that don't do their work they just sit in the back but you know hey getting to take a yoga class where the final was okay get into a uh group of two or three people and do a dance no style nothing like that so it was just all high schoolers like dancing around like they were on acid or something calling it interpretive dance my god never had to take a PE class lucky [ __ ] hated PE i I I will find the path of least resistance on anything I do spungo says "I know it must be scary for Alex he seems physically incapable of shaking those." He did no he did though his reaction to being taught how to wiggle his tits dude like he he just fundamentally didn't seem to understand that it's all in the shoulders like he kept kind of wiggling his hips along with it and it's like "Oh my god it's like one of those uh air dancers." Yeah which I love bring Wayne back yeah i love Wayne i want to see Wayne come back and I want to see Fred come back oh my gosh that'd be great i miss Fred i miss Fred too yeah he's he's so handsome he's adorable handsome man yeah i think Amanda got me the little pinko meter that they used i don't know what I'm going to use it for but I've got those assets it's cute but how long How long have we been doing this i was just going to say we've been nattering on for an hour and 40 minutes [ __ ] i'm so sorry no it's okay whoops well we should probably go cuz I have to get ready for this standup thing tonight okay have fun thank you all for watching we'll be back next week being here i'll be in Michigan yay i'm not sure what the format will look like i might be able to just use this scene i don't know we'll see anyway bye i'll be on my phone I think bye [Music] thank you [Music] [Music]