Hello and welcome to the Taskmaster Podcast. Welcome back to the Taskmaster Podcast. We had a small break but we are now back because series 12 of Taskmaster has started. It's very exciting and all new brilliant lineup of Taskmaster and we are going to be chatting about series 12 episode 1.

I am your host Ed Gamble. As always, that will never, ever change Richard Herring. Today we will be speaking to the wonderful Mike Wozniak from series 11 of Taskmaster and a bonafidey Taskmaster Megafan.

So we'll be chatting to him all about series 12 episode 1, today we're very excited.

At more exciting news, the brand new Taskmaster book bring me the head of the Taskmaster is out now. You can go and buy it now, 101 next level tasks that will lead one lucky reader to some very special Taskmaster treasure. Are you up to the task? You can buy your copy now online or from your local bookshop go and get it. It's very, very exciting.

But apart from that, just remember that Taskmaster, new episodes are on Thursdays, 9pm on Channel 4 and you can catch up on all four afterwards. And this podcast will be dropping, yes dropping, every week, straight after the episode is released and we'll be picking apart the episodes with a special guest.

So let's get on with it, series 12 episode 1, as told by myself Ed Gamble and Mike Wozniak.

Mike Wozniak, welcome back to the Taskmaster podcast. Hello, Ed. Thank you very much. How the devil are you?

Very well, thank you, mate. It's lovely to see you. I saw you at my wedding last week, dancing up a storm.

I'd bust in out some pretty fresh moves. A couple of new ones that I thought I'd sample out, especially for you. That was my gift to use the gift of dance.

I loved the gift of dance. It was wonderful. You're the only person who I'd accept the gift of dance from, I'd say.

I think I came and grabbed you quite early in the evening to say, have you started dancing yet? And you said, it's coming. It's going to build up.

You've done the real pressure, basically. And I said, okay. And then I walked away, I came back and I'd say 30 seconds later, you were flailing around.

Yeah. Yeah. The full Wozniak dance move, which I've described before as one of those toys that you press the bottom of and then they go awwably.

It was lovely to see. It was quite hard to do. It's a lot of pain the following day, but it does feel worth it.

Yes. Well, that sums up your appearance on Taskmaster as well, I guess. You throw yourself into everything you do. And there's a lot of pain the next day.

Most of my life is recovery period. Yeah. There's a few short shot bursts of activity, but it's worth it for those moments of exertion.

I don't have a bit lie down. Yeah. How's your how's your lie down been since since Taskmaster? The how's the public reaction being since since your appearance on Taskmaster?

I get.

If it ever does come up.

It tends to get personal quite quickly.

I would say. I would say if someone does approach me because they've watched the show.

And then it's not to say, hey, you can have a selfie. It's please tell me the current status of your anus is what comes out.

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