I've started listening to Armando's podcast, STRONG MESSAGE HERE, beginning with an episode from the new year where he briefly talked about TASKMASTER! Fairly sure the task he mentioned in particular was the "Be brave" task:
Transcript below, courtesy of this thread on the TM sub (which is where I found out about the ep itself):
ARMANDO: Interesting thing happened this week. I've been sitting on it for quite some time. But, I was announced in the new series of Taskmaster.
NATALIE: The trailer's very pleasing.
ARMANDO: Oh, good.
NATALIE: The trailer is very pleasing. You look very good armed with a weapon.
ARMANDO: Thank you. Yes. Look up Taskmaster, those of you who don't know it. It's comedians doing silly things. It's a very joyous programme. It's always been one of my favourite shows.
NATALIE: Did you have fun doing it?
ARMANDO: I leapt at the chance, when asked. Although, online, people were going, 'What's he doing on it? Oh my god.' It's weird the kind of perception you encounter of yourself, online. For the sake of those who do know Taskmaster – we've done, a lot of the tasks have been recorded – I will be playing the part of the elderly.
NATALIE: Okay.
ARMANDO: There's always someone on it who looks a little bit bemused and confused by what's going on.
NATALIE: See, I feel like I could work towards that.
ARMANDO: Yes. Although someone posted, 'I hope everyone is kind to that old man,' when the news was announced. So, thank you.
NATALIE: So he managed to patronise you and simultaneously care about you.
ARMANDO: That's nice, yes. I'll take one.
NATALIE: It's better than nothing. Marginally.
ARMANDO: But, I think – there was a task – I can't really go into, you know, it hasn't been out yet, so I won't be discussing it – I can just say that there was one task I did, which I volunteered to do something quite physical, and I'm glad I did it, but I think that's why I now have a bad back and a bad knee. I think that's – I'm not gonna sue, but I think –
NATALIE: No, but you were broken by Taskmaster.
ARMANDO: Hah, yes. I think – I just need my hip to go and I will have the triple lock, basically. Knee, back, and hip. I'm working towards that.
NATALIE: And we'll have to carry you around on one of those delivery trolleys.
ARMANDO: Yes.
NATALIE: Like Hannibal Lecter.
ARMANDO: I thought you were gonna say like the old Papal chair that they used to carry popes around in. But, no, Hannibal Lecter.
NATALIE: I mean I think that says a lot about your self image. That's very healthy.
ARMANDO: Which company delivers Hannibal Lecter to addresses?
NATALIE: I mean, I guess it depends on whether you want him to arrive?
Armando and Sara Pascoe are joined by Dr Matt Winning to discuss the language around COP.
António Guterres has said that missing the 1.5 degree climate target is "a moral failure and deadly negligence". Is he right?
Dr Matt Winning joins Sara Pascoe and Armando to discuss the language around climate change. Is it proportionately alarmist, or does it just scare us? Are we numb to the jaw-dropping headlines?
Matt has some ideas of how to communicate these complex ideas more succinctly, and tell us of the days spend at COP agonising over whether 'urges' or 'suggests' makes it into an agreement. We also look at how language has been used to put the onus on us, rather than corporations, for waste and pollution, and a Swedish word that should make its way into Keir Starmer's vocabulary.
