Hello there, everyone, it's Ed Gamble here, the host of the Taskmaster Podcast and welcome

to the Taskmaster Podcast Waterco incidents. We, of course, are in the thick of series

16 now breaking down each episode, task by task, with a special guest and we are very excited

that our special guest this week is the national treasure, the living legend, Julian Clarey.

So excited to speak to Julian about episode four, never met Julian before, so quite intrigued

to see how this conversation goes. He is an extremely funny man. He is a brilliant

taskmaster contestant and I cannot wait. Mainly it's just to discuss all the stuff he's

clearly got in his house because he's bringing most of it in for prize tasks. So let's

get cracking. Remember, Taskmaster is on at 9 o'clock on Channel 4 on Thursday. You don't

need me to tell you that. Come on, this is the, like, sister podcast. You know all about

the big, um, big mummy show. Uh, very excited to talk to Julian. So this is episode four

of series 16 of Taskmaster as discussed by Julian Clarey. Welcome Julian to the Taskmaster

Podcast. Oh, hello, Ed. How are you? I'm very well. Thank you. How are you? Thanks so much

for coming on the pod. Do you think we're wearing the same top, both of us? I think, yeah,

it's sort of maroon, maroon color. Would you say that? Sort of. Yes, I would. I don't

need this. Well, no, this, I mean, this is a, this is a gym top, which I've just, I've

just come back from a workout. So I wouldn't work out in a lovely, also, bench top. How impressive.

Thank you. That's all I wanted to do was impress you. So I went to the gym first, Julian.

Good. Pumped up. Pumped up indeed. Very pumped to talk to you. Um, very exciting to have

you on the podcast and that you, you have done Taskmaster. Did, did you enjoy the experience

overall? I did it. You sort of immersed yourself in it and it, um, takes heavy your life

a bit like I did big brother once. It's a similar kind of experience where you're totally

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