Oh, hello, listeners. It's me, little Alex Horn. I'm six foot two. Now, I am on the streets of London. You can hear the cars of London whizzing past me.

Why am I out here? Well, I'm encouraging people to come to the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Tuesday, the 20th of December, because it's the final horn section gig of the year.

And you know what? I'm also encouraging you to come along right now because we've rented a big room and we want to fill it because we want to have a lot of fun.

It's just before Christmas. It's just before New Year. What better thing could you be doing? There's no strike on Tuesday. There's no excuse not to come.

So go to the Horn section website right now. That's the horn section dot com to work out how you can buy a ticket. It might look like it's full on ticket master, but that's because that website is frustrating.

So Tuesday, the 20th of December, the horn section, big bash. Shepherd's Bush Empire, it's going to be amazing.

There'll be some taskmaster stuff. There'll be a joke. At least one. There'll be songs, potentially some nudity. See you there, 8 p.m. Goodbye. Thank you so much. Please buy a ticket. Bye!

Hello and welcome to the taskmaster podcast. It's me and Gamble, the host of that podcast that I just mentioned. Very excited this week.

We are starting to chat about series eight. A wonderful series. Very excited to rewatch it and chat about it episode by episode. So today, of course, because this is how numbers work.

We are talking about series eight, episode one. And our special guest is the wonderful Margaret Kaibon Smith. Margaret's been on the show before. Good old MCS.

You've heard Margaret. You know she's a taskmaster superfan. You know she loves to chat about it. They're always good episodes with Margaret. She's a brilliant actor. She's a brilliant writer. She's a brilliant podcaster.

She's got her own podcast called Crushed by Margaret Kaibon Smith. That's available wherever you get your podcasts. Talking to celebrity guests about first crushes, first loves, all that sort of things silly things that people have done when they've had a crush on people.

So go and check that out. Had a load of brilliant guests on that, including a lot of great taskmaster alumni. But for now, we're not talking about crushes unless she's got a crush on someone in this series. You never know. It's a hot lineup.

This is taskmaster series eight, episode one, as discussed by Margaret Kaibon Smith. Welcome back Margaret to the taskmaster podcast.

Hi, thanks for having me. Of course, always a great guest here on the taskmaster podcast. We will keep putting on the taskmaster podcast until you are booked for taskmaster.

This is that we know and then I'll get to do it properly. We know now how brilliant you'd be just by discussing, discussing the show on these programs.

Discussing how insane about various competitive things. Yes, exactly. So we're very excited to chat to you about the first episode of series eight.

Yeah. The big one to kick it off. I mean, and it's a classic. It's a classic. And you know what? I've been watching series eight back.

And you know, I've seen it a couple of times. I'm a huge fan of the show, obviously. But some of these tasks I had forgotten about. And there are some amazing tasks in this series.

Agreed. I mean, even in the first episode, I was like, oh, wow, it's it's banger after banger. Yeah, it really is. I think, you know, there's definitely in this episode.

We'll discuss it later. Top 10 task ever. Yeah. And certainly one of the ones I'm really jealous. I didn't get to do. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, we'll chat about it when we get to it. I think we all know the one we're talking about. And it's not finding the receiver of a baby monitor, because that that would have sent me in.

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