Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast. It's me, Ed Gamble, and we're talking about

series 9, which me, Ed Gamble, is in, along with David Bedil, Rosemar Tefeo, Katie Wix,

Joe Brand. Very excited to be talking about this series. We'll be talking about the second

episode of this series today with the brilliant Joe Brand. I can't wait to speak to Joe. She's

of course been on the podcast before, but nearly three years ago, goodness me, talking about

series 10, but today we get to talk about ourselves, which is good, and it's a very, very good

episode this. I remember in the studio just absolutely losing my mind, laughing, especially

at the team task, Joe and David are doing the team task, which we will be discussing

at length, I'm sure, and it's always lovely to speak to Joe anyway. Before we do, we have

some other business. I spoke to David Bedil last week, which you probably will have heard.

David was saying that the way he was on Taskmaster, very much how he is in real life, just

not being able to get to grips with practical things, and he couldn't come up with many

specific examples, but straight afterwards in David Bedil style, he suddenly remembered

something that had happened. And here it is, I'm going to read it out to you. Last week,

I was doing a men's health podcast with Alistair Campbell. That's not it. And I was meeting

him at an office that I use, but I overslept and woke at 9.45. I am sorry to tell you this,

but it's integral to the story, very regular, with toileting in the morning. But on this

occasion, I thought if I do that, I will be very late. So I ended up having quite a long

shouty argument with more winner about whether it was rude or to be late, or say to Alistair

Campbell as soon as he steps into my office, sorry, I just need to use the loo. My office

is a small flat, so he would just have been sitting the other side of the door, and then

I'd be obviously shitting. She was convinced that shitting was worse. I think lateness is

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