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Well, well, welcome to the first episode of This is the Taskmaster, The People's Podcast,

which makes me the Taskmaster People's Princess. The timpy, you can go we timpy for short.

Does that work for you Ben? Ben's a producer. Ben's not giving himself a mic.

Each week we scour, we talent scout the world to find the Taskmaster super fans.

And you are super! We are going to delight in discovering what the show means to you.

I'm squealing like a little picky just thinking about it. I'll be joined by comedy writer,

journalist and little Taskmaster nerd. That's what he calls himself. I call himself lovely boy number one.

It's Jack Bernhardt and he's going to be giving me all the facts and stats behind the shows.

Sexy and then you think to be fair. So the theme of this first podcast is firsts.

And if you're asking, my first was Warren Day and he still sends me memes.

Jack, Jack, Jack. Welcome to this studio. Thank you for having me. Thanks for being with me, you know?

Yeah. So you're a writer, a journalist and I'm going to say most

importantly, you would identify as a Taskmaster fan. Yeah, I don't want to

denigrate the audience and say I'm with the biggest Taskmaster fan.

Well, you don't see them with their little spreadsheets, do you?

You don't and I have a lot of spreadsheets, not very much time, but a lot of spreadsheets.

Yeah. That's all I do. New dad? New dad. We don't care about that. We just care about the facts

and stats. You know who my real baby is? Taskmaster. I actually can't say that. My real baby is my

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