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Speaker 1: Promising more random, ridiculous and rambunctious tasks designed to puzzle

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Speaker 1: the brain. Taskmaster's back tonight, seven point thirty on ten

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Speaker 1: and joining us now Tom Gleeson, the task Master himself.

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Speaker 2: Hey Tom, good, thanks for having me back.

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Speaker 3: Always a patient coming back, hear voice.

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Speaker 1: So what what kind of tasks might we see this season?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 2: Sometimes they can be quite simple, like build the scariest scarecrow.

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Speaker 2: I think that one's on tonight, all right, and so

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Speaker 2: that's it's a bit of a craft challenge. But you think, oh, well,

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Speaker 2: that sounds pretty simple. But then watching someone like Will

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Speaker 2: Anderson do craft, he's just been using straight away because

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Speaker 2: I don't know, he's a comedian, but he's also he's

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Speaker 2: always in control, and he's always you know, he's a

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Speaker 2: bit serious. Yeah, so it's good to watch him be silly.

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Speaker 2: So if you've ever wanted to see Will Anderson host

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Speaker 2: play school, tonight, you're getting pretty close to that.

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Speaker 3: He's not to your tudman.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, craft, it's not his specialty. And he knows that

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Speaker 2: it's fun to have him in the studio, and I

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Speaker 2: get to point that out to him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well done. He knows his strengths Yeah, absolutely, What

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Speaker 3: else can we expect because it's good to have the

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Speaker 3: show back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well we've also got Lloyd Langford and Anne Edmunds and

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Speaker 2: people may know them from, you know, seeing other TV

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Speaker 2: shows like have you been paying Attention? They're a couple,

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Speaker 2: So the first time in Taskmaster history where we've had

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Speaker 2: a couple in the show and they compete, they compete viciously.

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Speaker 2: I think it might have ramifications for their relationship.

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Speaker 1: Deep do you find yourself from more often rewarding innovation

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Speaker 1: or berating stupidity?

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Speaker 2: Well, I do reward innovation, but I'm going to be

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Speaker 2: honest with you, that doesn't happen frequently, but it does

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Speaker 2: happen every now and then more likely I'm berating Josh Thomas,

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Speaker 2: but just being Josh.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it reminded me of Good Newsweek. Actually.

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Speaker 2: I used to be on Good Newsweek with Josh Thomas

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Speaker 2: all the time. Yeah, and I always give him a

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Speaker 2: thrashing and he would always pay out me.

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Speaker 4: And it was it was just like old time.

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Speaker 5: Just going back and forward school week. Yeah, but you

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Speaker 5: go thrive on there.

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, and that's part of the fun.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you have a different car for each season.

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Speaker 2: This is season two. We're launching tonight. You've got the

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Speaker 2: five comedians there, they're there for the whole season, and

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Speaker 2: we all do know each other, so it's yeah, so

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Speaker 2: the banter is pretty it goes really close to the

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Speaker 2: edge because we like to push each other.

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Speaker 1: I was reading on just a little blurb about what's

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Speaker 1: coming up. It said one of the things, one of

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Speaker 1: the tasks coming up is fielding a lesson with lemons.

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Speaker 3: What what is that?

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Speaker 4: Fielding a lesson with lemons?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well, I think that it's a bit hard

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Speaker 2: to describe.

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Speaker 4: In fact, I think that Tom Cashman less a time.

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Speaker 2: My assistant struggled to describe it, and I had to

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Speaker 2: describe before. In essentially, it's whoever can throw a lemon

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Speaker 2: the furthest and catch it. But for every lemon you drop,

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Speaker 2: you lose a meter. And then they also juice the lemons,

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Speaker 2: and you subtract how much juices are extracted from the

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Speaker 2: drop lemons. This is the kind of stuff they have

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Speaker 2: to wrap the heathery.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard the old story Tom about apparently

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Speaker 1: if you eat a lemon in front of a sax

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Speaker 1: sopteness they won't be able to play.

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Speaker 3: Really oh yeah, I have not sad that.

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Speaker 1: Might be able to incorporate this. I like to see

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Speaker 1: it either proven or disproven. Something to do with the puckering.

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Speaker 1: I mean it starts.

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Speaker 2: Afterword we should get maybe we need to get like

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Speaker 2: five saxophones, one French contestant, yes, and then we just

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Speaker 2: rip into like a an eighties love ballad that require

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Speaker 2: a very good saxophone the song and I'll just like

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Speaker 2: chow down on lemons as they Yes, that's right up.

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Speaker 4: My allie. Actually think it sounds.

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Speaker 3: Perfects all the time.

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Speaker 5: You can get the second couple on and have the

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Speaker 5: Clinton's on and see Bill can play and Hillories going

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Speaker 5: on the lemon, isn't it because she's sack a couple

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Speaker 5: of the time.

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Speaker 4: Jesus, exactly the task we need.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But I just want to digress slightly because I

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Speaker 5: saw an episode of Hard Quiz, the start of an

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Speaker 5: episode of Hardquiz the other day, and I watched you

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Speaker 5: for five minutes talk to the contestants, and it was brilliant, right,

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Speaker 5: but you have to draw the line because you're taking

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Speaker 5: the mickey out of these people as you're introducing them.

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Speaker 3: But it was very funny every time.

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Speaker 5: But in your in your gig, and in comedy you

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Speaker 5: have to be careful not to go over the line

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Speaker 5: and upset them do that. How do you get that

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Speaker 5: balance right? Because it was actually really good too. I'm

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Speaker 2: Well, the trick is editing. So what I do is

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Speaker 2: I go too far on the day. Then I let

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Speaker 2: other people worry about that. So I let the lawyers, yeah,

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Speaker 2: editors worry about it. But the thing is, if you

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Speaker 2: don't go too far on the day, then you've got

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Speaker 2: thing to cut back. So I prefer to provide them

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Speaker 2: with a full tree with long branches as they get

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Speaker 4: Chump to leave.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: After do you know what I reckon it is that

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Speaker 1: saves you? It's the twinkle in your eye?

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah, well I mean that. You know what,

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Speaker 2: maybe maybe that might be the secret. Essentially, I actually

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Speaker 2: have no malice for anybody. Yeah, so that's why it's okay.

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Speaker 2: I genuinely couldn't care about anyone or saying anything to anybody,

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Speaker 2: and I hand it out pretty evenly.

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Speaker 4: So maybe that's the trick. Maybe I'm not there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is definitely a twinkle in the eye that

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Speaker 1: sort of makes it all okay.

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Speaker 3: It's also showing what's on that editing room floor. Oh yes,

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Speaker 3: definitely foing you and your twinkle back on.

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Speaker 1: The seventh thirty Times tonight for Task Mask or a

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Speaker 1: Task Master Australia.

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Speaker 4: Thank you Tom, Thank you thanks for giving me back