Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster podcast, it's me, Ed Gamble, the host of the Taskmaster

podcast and today we are talking about series nine, episode seven, and now the classic

episode from the best series of all time. And we are joined by a special guest of course

we are the brilliant Sophie Juca, a Taskmaster champion soon to appear in Taskmaster Champion

of Champions of course, because that line up is now complete and I'm sure that will be

all recorded soon. I don't really know how it works, but we're very much looking forward

to seeing the clash of the Titans, the third champion of champions. Before we chat to Sophie,

I will remind you that I have written a book called Glutton, the multi-course life of a very greedy

boy, it's my life in food, and that is available to pre-order from wherever you pre-order your

books from, if you want a signed copy, pre-order it from Waterstones. Thank you very much for that

in advance. I greatly appreciate your custom, but now let's hear from Sophie Juca about series nine,

episode seven. Welcome back, Sophie Juca, to the Taskmaster podcast.

Hey, it's me. And it's not just you though, would you like to describe for the listener who

you're joined by on the Zoom today? I was having internet difficulties before the podcast,

so I decided to add a touch of whimsy to my unreliable internet status with a puppet that Taskmaster

fans might remember from the show. Yes, it's a wonderful puppet of you wearing your Taskmaster outfit.

Yes, she's in a little traki. Her mouth is constantly open. It can close.

Well, that is the last time your internet froze. That is the exact face you were making when

the internet froze, mouth wide open. I feel like that's the worst position to freeze it.

No, I think there's worse. You were smiling at least. It was a nice picture. There's definitely

worse ways to freeze than that, I think. But we have fingers crossed. Hopefully it's all going to

work out for the best this time round. Yeah, I'm excited about it. I'm going to put my little

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