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00:00Good afternoon and welcome to The Countdown Studio.
00:29I don't know whether you saw the same article that I saw about a chap in China
00:33and he had to have something surgically removed from his tummy.
00:38It's really quite a story actually.
00:40He couldn't tease it out, it had to be surgically removed.
00:44It was a half metre long eel which he had taken.
00:48He had introduced it to the body because he had heard that it was some sort of folk remedy for constipation.
00:55So it just goes to show the sort of lengths that some people go to when in that sort of condition.
01:00Anyway, it was removed, half a metre long, and I say, that's nothing.
01:06Half a metre.
01:06Let me tell you about my experience.
01:08I went to see the doctor, he said it's time that you had an endoscopy.
01:12Oh, this is going to be a lovely story.
01:13That's good, that's good.
01:14And I said, oh, okay, fine.
01:16So I turned up and he said, jolly good, and you brought somebody with you, have you to take you home?
01:22And I said, no.
01:24I said, I've left the car at the station.
01:25He said, oh dear.
01:26He said, no, no, no.
01:27He said, because we normally give our patients a sedative.
01:31I said, oh dear, do you have to have a sedative?
01:32He said, well, he said, some people don't.
01:35He said, I normally give them a little bit of a shot, he said, but if you want to do it without, fine.
01:41I said, let's do it.
01:43Commando style.
01:45So with that, he said, lie down there.
01:47And then I had a nurse on each shoulder.
01:49Because that very moment, he produced something, and I say, half a metre eel is nothing.
01:57He produced a python, which he introduced down to my throat.
02:01It was the most terrifying experience.
02:05And it went on and on.
02:07This great black thing down my throat.
02:09It was awful.
02:10All right.
02:10And it was bad.
02:11But what was far worse was the extraction.
02:15I shall never do that again.
02:17And I urge any of our viewers, if you go to a hospital to have an endoscopy, have the shot.
02:22And don't do it the brave way, because it was awful.
02:25But there we are.
02:26Now then, who's here?
02:27David McGaugh is here.
02:28Postman from Falkirk.
02:29Two wins.
02:30Well done.
02:31Well done.
02:32And now you've got Gabriel Odia to fight against from London.
02:36A sports coach in a special needs school.
02:39How long have you been doing that?
02:41So I work for a charity within the school.
02:43So Greenhouse Sports, I've been working with for about seven years.
02:47And Swiss Cottage School, I've been there for about five.
02:49That's great stuff.
02:50Well done.
02:51But you spent a little bit of time in Japan, too.
02:53Taught English in Japan for about a year and a half.
02:56Amazing stuff.
02:57Well, good luck to you both.
02:58Let's have a big round of applause for David and Gabriel.
03:05And over in the corner, Susie, of course.
03:07And for the first time on Countdown, broadcaster, writer, particularly sport, it's Mark Pugach.
03:12Welcome, Mark.
03:13Welcome.
03:17Now, it's the quiet man from Falkirk.
03:21Off we go.
03:21Letters go.
03:22Hi, Rachel.
03:23Hi, David.
03:24Start with our continent, please.
03:25Start today with T.
03:28And another.
03:30P.
03:31And another.
03:33L.
03:34And a vowel.
03:35U.
03:36And another.
03:38E.
03:39Consonant.
03:40J.
03:42And another.
03:44S.
03:45And a vowel.
03:47A.
03:48And a final consonant, please.
03:50And a final W.
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04:25Yes, David.
04:26Six.
04:27Six.
04:27Gabriel?
04:28Six.
04:29David?
04:29Pleats.
04:30And Gabriel?
04:31Paylist.
04:32Paylist.
04:33Yeah.
04:34Now, what do we think about in the corner?
04:36Mark and Susie?
04:38Pleats of six we got as well, and pulsate for seven.
04:41Oh, good one, yeah.
04:43Pulsate.
04:44Very good.
04:44Six apiece, and Gabriel, your letters game.
04:47Hi, Rachel.
04:48Hi, Gabriel.
04:48May I have a constant, please?
04:50You may, thank you.
04:51Start with N.
04:53And a second.
04:55W.
04:56And a third.
04:58F.
04:59And one more.
05:01C.
05:02And a vowel, please.
05:04E.
05:05Second vowel.
05:07I.
05:08And a third vowel.
05:11E.
05:12And a consonant.
05:14S.
05:15And a final consonant, please.
05:19And a final F.
05:21Stand by.
05:25Gabriel, just six.
05:55Six and?
05:55And six.
05:56Gabriel?
05:57Nieces.
05:58Nieces, yes, David.
06:00And fences.
06:01Yep.
06:01Yep.
06:01We had nieces and fences, although I spelt nieces wrong, and Susie had to tell me that
06:06the idea all the way around.
06:07And winces, so nothing above six.
06:09Winces, did you say?
06:10Winces.
06:11Winces, yep.
06:12I know that feeling.
06:13Twelve apiece.
06:14Now, David.
06:15Numbers game.
06:16One large, five small, please.
06:18Thank you, David.
06:18One for the top row.
06:19Five little ones.
06:20And the first numbers game of the day is two, nine, eight, seven, six.
06:27And the large, one, seventy-five.
06:29And the target, eight hundred and thirty-one.
06:31Eight, three, one.
06:32One large, five, five, five.
07:03Yes, David.
07:04Eight, three, one.
07:05And Gabriel?
07:06I think eight, three, one.
07:08So, David.
07:10Nine plus two.
07:12Yep.
07:12Times 75.
07:14Eight, two, five.
07:15And add the six.
07:16Eight, three, one.
07:17Well done.
07:18And Gabriel?
07:18Same way.
07:20There we are.
07:21Well done.
07:23So, 22 apiece as we go into our first Tea Time teaser, which is I Weed Less.
07:29And the clue, no weeds here, just a plant you can sing about.
07:32No weeds here, just a plant you can sing about.
07:36And that plant, of course, would be Edelweiss.
07:58Edelweiss.
07:58Twenty-two apiece.
07:59Gabriel, your letter's game.
08:01Thanks, Nick.
08:02Hi.
08:03Could I start with a consonant, please?
08:05Thank you, Gabriel.
08:07R.
08:08And a second.
08:10Z.
08:10And a third.
08:14H.
08:15A vowel, please.
08:17I.
08:18And a second.
08:20O.
08:22And a consonant.
08:24N.
08:25And another consonant.
08:28H.
08:29Final vowel.
08:32A.
08:32And a last consonant, please.
08:37And the last one.
08:39P.
08:39Stand by.
08:40Still.
08:41THE END
08:42CENTER
08:44A HEALTH Gr�지
08:44A Mr.
08:46END
08:46CENTER
08:50A HEALTH
08:51Y could I do it.
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08:55and to landfiety
08:56and to landfiety
08:56and to landf coherently
08:57and to landfiety
08:58and to landfiety
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08:59and the Aloii
08:59and to landfiety
09:00and to landfiety
09:00and to landfies
09:01and to landfies
09:02and to landfib 말씀�
09:02and to landf Roland
09:03and thank God
09:07for your head but
09:08doing this week.
09:09Gabriel?
09:13Just a five.
09:15A five for Gabriel. David?
09:17Five as well.
09:18Gabriel?
09:19Apron.
09:20David?
09:20Apron.
09:21Two aprons.
09:23And what have we got there? Mark and Susie?
09:25Two aprons, but an orphan.
09:27And an orphan.
09:28And an orphan, yes.
09:29Sounds like a song.
09:31Right, dear honour.
09:32Two aprons and an orphan.
09:34Very good.
09:3427 apiece.
09:36Now then, David, are you going to break away?
09:38It's a letters game for you.
09:40A consonant, please.
09:41Thank you, David.
09:42D.
09:43And another.
09:45L.
09:46And a third.
09:48R.
09:49And a vowel.
09:51O.
09:52And another.
09:53E.
09:54A consonant.
09:56D.
09:57And another.
10:00L.
10:01And a vowel.
10:03A.
10:04And a consonant, please.
10:06And lastly, T.
10:08Stand by.
10:09Stand by.
10:39David.
10:42Seven.
10:42Seven, Gabriel?
10:44Seven.
10:45David.
10:46Toddler.
10:47Look at you two.
10:49Two toddlers.
10:51Any more toddlers there, Mark?
10:53We didn't get a toddler.
10:54No, we didn't, but we got a leotard.
10:56Actually, those leotards pop up, don't they?
10:58Not for a while.
10:59I mean, not literally, obviously.
11:00But they come around, you know, it's extraordinary.
11:03Comes around in fashion.
11:04Yeah.
11:0534 apiece, nice numbers.
11:07Gabriel.
11:08Hi, could I just get one from the top?
11:10One from the top and five little ones.
11:12Thank you, Gabriel.
11:13And this time the five small ones are nine, ten, six, another ten and two.
11:21And the big one, 25.
11:23And this target, 904.
11:259-0-4.
11:277-0-4-4-4-4-4-5-0-4-4-4-5-0-4-4-4.
11:45Gabriel, man of five, not written down.
12:01No, then, David.
12:03No, just 901.
12:04Yes, Gabriel?
12:05No, sorry, nothing. I've made a mistake.
12:07And David?
12:08Six minus two is four.
12:10Six minus two is four.
12:12Times 25.
12:13Times 25, 100.
12:15Times 9.
12:16900.
12:17And 10 over 10 is one, another one.
12:18Yes.
12:21901, three away.
12:22Three away, though.
12:23Rachel, help us.
12:24Take us to 904, if you can.
12:26Well, with the same ingredients, if you say 25 times 9 is 225.
12:32And then do your 10 over 10 for 1 to add on for 226 and times that by 4.
12:38904.
12:39Well done.
12:40Well done.
12:40So, David's broken away a little bit.
12:4441 to Gabriel's 34 as we turn to Mark.
12:47And, Mark, you do a lot of great interviews in the sporting world.
12:51Who particularly springs to mind as being an exceptional character?
12:55Well, there'd be a couple.
12:57An hour with Usain Bolt was pretty special because you've got to understand what makes him tick.
13:02Where he comes from, growing up in rural Jamaica, the respect for his elders, for his mother.
13:07They would tick him off if he didn't do things right.
13:09And he really, you can see how he's maintained that throughout his life.
13:13I interviewed Shane Warne a lot of times.
13:15You can see why he's so good at poker, because psychologically he's brilliant and he had that hold on people on the field.
13:21But I think the one that really sticks out was a day I spent with Tony McCoy.
13:25And jump jockeys, particular jump jockeys, are completely different creatures.
13:29First of all, you've got to get out very early if you're going to spend the day with them.
13:31They have a cup of tea.
13:32I can't function without bacon first thing in the morning.
13:35But, you know, they have a cup of tea, maybe a bit of sugar.
13:37Then they're off riding out horses.
13:39Then they go to work.
13:40So it's like they're doing two things in one.
13:42You have to remember about jump jockeys.
13:43They're paid £150 a ride, basic, basic, about £150 a ride.
13:50They're going at about 35, 40 miles an hour, they count at top speed.
13:53They fall off about one in eight, one in eight times.
13:57And the day I followed McCoy, we went to Fosslass in Wales.
14:00And the doctor on the course said when they fall off a horse, it's like falling out of a train at about 35 miles an hour.
14:06So these people mentally and physically are completely different.
14:09And I said to McCoy, just list for me what you've broken throughout your career when you've won everything.
14:15And this is the list he told me.
14:17Punched lungs, broken arm, broken ribs, broken bones in ankles, broken tibia and fibula, broken my wrist, fractured a couple of lower vertebrae, broken both shoulder blades, both collarbones, both cheekbones.
14:32And my teeth aren't my teeth anymore.
14:34I mean, that is, you know, we are talking about a breed apart.
14:37So I said to another one, Mick Fitzgerald, a great friend of whose I've interviewed a lot.
14:41And I said, when you've fallen off and you're lying on the ground and you know you've hurt yourself, what's the first thing you think of?
14:48Now, if you and I had hurt ourselves, we'd be going crisp cotton sheets, wouldn't we?
14:52Someone bringing us, you know, lots of lovely things to eat in bed and DVDs to watch until we feel better.
14:57And Mick said to me, the first thing you're thinking of when you're lying there and you're injured is, when am I going to ride a horse again?
15:03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:03They operate in a completely different mental sphere almost to any other sports people I've ever come across.
15:10And you come off a horse travelling at that speed, but there's another horse following that's going to tread on you if you don't mind.
15:17Quite often, the worst act, you might come off and you'll be all right, but the problem is you quite literally get a shooing from the horse behind.
15:24So the 150 per ride, where's the money coming from then?
15:28It's a share of the purse or...?
15:30It's a share of the purse and the prize money.
15:31Obviously, if you win the race, you'll then get a share of what that race is worth.
15:37And obviously, once you get to the stage, and he's now retired, of course, Tony McCoy, the top jump jockeys, they will get retained by certain owners.
15:44So they'll earn an awful lot more money.
15:45But that's still the basic of what you're going in on.
15:48They're not allowed to gamble, presumably, Marco.
15:50Absolutely not.
15:51No.
15:51Absolutely not.
15:52So, you know, you'll see them lining up in the Grand National and, you know, the jockeys who are just starting their careers, that's what they'll be on.
15:59They're going through all of that for about 150 quid.
16:02You know, when we talk about what some footballers at the top end are on now, you know, £300,000 a week.
16:08And they may not even play those footballers, of course.
16:10Exactly.
16:10But they say that, I mean, he was, he's retired, as you say.
16:15They say nobody will ever get to the number of wins that he had.
16:18It was an extraordinary number.
16:20Nobody will ever get that.
16:21Fantastic.
16:21And also, he, I mean, it was like a drug to him.
16:23He just had to keep on winning.
16:24He had to keep on winning.
16:26And the minute you pass the finishing post and you've won, where's the next winner?
16:29Where's the next winner?
16:31You know, and his attitude was the same.
16:33So I deliberately followed him to Foss last near Thernethley on a Tuesday afternoon.
16:37I deliberately wanted to see him at the non-glamorous track to see if that attitude was exactly the same as it was on Cheltenham Gold Cup day.
16:45And the answer, you know the answer, it was absolutely the same.
16:48That insatiable desire to win and win and win.
16:51You can't really, you can't, you can't put that into somebody, can you?
16:54They're born with it.
16:55Well done.
16:56Great story.
17:01Very good.
17:02Now, David, let's just get more off again.
17:06Yes, that word consonant, please.
17:08Thank you, David.
17:09D.
17:10And another.
17:12C.
17:13And another.
17:15R.
17:16And the bell.
17:19O.
17:19And another.
17:22U.
17:22And a third.
17:25E.
17:26Consonant.
17:28X.
17:29And another consonant.
17:31B.
17:32And a final consonant, please.
17:34And a final.
17:35T.
17:36Countdown.
17:37Forrest.
17:40But the next.
17:43Because of Elf.
17:45And another.
17:49Yes, David?
18:08A seven.
18:09A seven, Gabriel?
18:10Just a six.
18:11And that's six?
18:12Detour.
18:13Detour.
18:14Now then, David?
18:15Courted.
18:15Courted?
18:16Very good.
18:17Courted.
18:18Anything else?
18:19Doubter.
18:20Yeah.
18:21Yeah, but nothing above seven.
18:22That's it.
18:23Okay.
18:24Well done.
18:2548 to 34.
18:27Gabriel.
18:28Don't let him get away with it.
18:31Your letters go.
18:33Could I start with a consonant, please?
18:35Thank you, Gabriel.
18:36S.
18:37And a second.
18:39D.
18:40And a third.
18:43T.
18:44A vowel, please.
18:46U.
18:47And a second.
18:48I.
18:50Another consonant.
18:52S.
18:53And another.
18:55R.
18:57And a vowel.
18:59O.
19:01And a final vowel, please.
19:02And a final A.
19:05Stand by.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:08And a vowel, please.
19:09And a vowel, please.
19:09And a vowel, please.
19:09And a vowel, please.
19:10And a vowel, please.
19:11And a vowel, please.
19:11And a vowel, please.
19:12And a vowel, please.
19:12And a vowel, please.
19:12And a vowel, please.
19:13And a vowel, please.
19:13And a vowel, please.
19:14And a vowel, please.
19:14And a vowel, please.
19:14And a vowel, please.
19:15And a vowel, please.
19:15And a vowel, please.
19:16And a vowel, please.
19:16And a vowel, please.
19:17And a vowel, please.
19:17And a vowel, please.
19:18And a vowel, please.
19:18And a vowel, please.
19:19And a vowel, please.
19:19And a vowel, please.
19:20And a vowel, please.
19:21Yes, Gabriel?
19:38A seven.
19:39A seven?
19:40Just a six.
19:41And you're six?
19:42Steers.
19:43Steers.
19:43Yes, Gabriel?
19:44Studios.
19:45Studios.
19:46Yes.
19:47You've clawed a bit back there.
19:48Now, what have we got there?
19:50Mark and Susie?
19:52Auditors for eight.
19:53Yes.
19:53And another eight.
19:55Yes.
19:57Sortoirs.
19:57Oh, yes.
19:58Our necklace friend.
20:00Yes.
20:00Exactly, yes.
20:01The long necklaces with fine gold chains and typically set with jewels.
20:04Sortoirs.
20:05Well done, Mark.
20:07Very good.
20:08And just seven points in it now, 41 to 48.
20:12David's still in the lead.
20:13David's numbers game now.
20:15One mark's very small, please.
20:17Thank you, David.
20:17One from the top.
20:18Five more little ones.
20:20And this time, little ones are nine, three, eight, another eight, and ten, and the big
20:27one, 50.
20:29And this target, 252.
20:32Two, five, two.
20:33Three, four, three, five, two.
20:46One, four.
20:47One, four.
20:47One six, one, two.
20:49This is on the top.
20:49Two, five, two.
20:51One, four, three, six.
20:51One, four, three.
20:53Six, three, ten, and ten, and three.
20:56Two, five.
20:57David?
21:052, 5, 2.
21:06And Gabriel?
21:08It's probably really obvious, but no, 2, 4, 8.
21:10And David?
21:128 minus 3 is 5.
21:138 minus 3, 5.
21:15Times 50.
21:162, 50.
21:17And 10 minus 8 is 2.
21:18The other 8, lovely.
21:19Well done, 2, 5, 2.
21:20Well done, well done.
21:22So 58 speaks to 41 as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser,
21:28which is fierce tea and the clue.
21:32They had a fierce argument about whether or not you could put tea in this.
21:36They had a fierce argument about whether or not you could put tea in this.
21:52And the answer to that, of course, is not cafetiere, as I would have pronounced it,
22:06but cafetiere.
22:07Is that right?
22:08Perfect.
22:09Terrible.
22:09And I've got one.
22:10In fact, I've got two.
22:12You'd think I could pronounce it correctly, wouldn't you?
22:14There we are.
22:1558 plays 41.
22:16David on 58.
22:17And Gabriel's letters go.
22:21Could I start with a vowel, please?
22:23Thank you, Gabriel.
22:25O.
22:25And the second.
22:27A.
22:28And the consonant.
22:30Q.
22:32And another, please.
22:35P.
22:36And the third.
22:39L.
22:40And the vowel.
22:42E.
22:43And the consonant.
22:45Y.
22:47Another consonant.
22:49N.
22:52And finish with a consonant, please.
22:54And finish with S.
22:57Stand by.
22:57P.
23:08M.
23:10Yes, Gabriel.
23:29I'm going to stick with a six.
23:32David?
23:33Six.
23:33Two sixes.
23:34Yes, Gabriel.
23:35Planes.
23:36Planes and?
23:36Panels.
23:39Any advance on six, Mark?
23:41Yes, a seven nopalas, which is a cactus.
23:46Yes, it's the edible bits of the nopal cactus,
23:50and they're used in Mexican cuisine.
23:52Well, I never.
23:53Nopalas.
23:54So, 64 to 47, David.
23:57Letters.
23:58Consonant, please.
23:59Thank you, David.
24:01V.
24:02And another.
24:04D.
24:05And another.
24:07M.
24:08And a vowel.
24:09I.
24:10And another.
24:12E.
24:13And a third vowel.
24:14U.
24:16A consonant.
24:17T.
24:18And another.
24:20L.
24:21And a final consonant, please.
24:24And a final M.
24:27Countdown.
24:27Letters.
24:35Let's go.
24:40Let's go.
24:47Yes, David?
24:59Six, not written down.
25:01And Gabriel?
25:02Six.
25:03So?
25:04Medium.
25:05Medium and?
25:06Dilute.
25:07Dilute.
25:08Yeah, very good.
25:09Now, in the corner, what have you dug up there?
25:13Medium and tedium.
25:15Tedium.
25:15Yes.
25:16And medium.
25:17Very good.
25:17All right.
25:1817 to 53.
25:20And now, Mark, we turn to Susie.
25:22It's a very important part of the day, this.
25:25It's Susie's origins of words.
25:27What have you got for us today, Susie?
25:29I have a whole hodgepodge of things for you today, Nick, quite literally, because I'm going
25:33to talk about the origin of hodgepodge and also other terms in English that mean some
25:37sort of medley of ingredients in some way.
25:40And hodgepodge is an earlier form of hodgepodge, which we still can hear today as well.
25:46It goes back to a very old French word, hodgepodge, actually it was po, hodgepodge, I guess, from which the English
25:53is derived.
25:54It's formed from oche, which meant to shake, and pot, or po, which meant the same as we
25:58have it, a pot.
25:59So a hodgepodge was a stew with many, many different ingredients, and they were all shaken,
26:04or presumably cooked together in one big pot, and then simmered for hours.
26:09An early English cookbook, some of the wonderful cookbooks that you can find around the medieval
26:14times, and this one from the 14th century, contains a recipe for goose in hodgepodge.
26:20So you can see that actually it was around as, as I say, a sort of stew of different ingredients
26:25from around the 15th century.
26:27That, of course, gave rise to the figurative sense that we know today of a whole assortment
26:32of ingredients.
26:33And there's another word in English that means pretty much the same thing, although it has
26:36a more fragrant resonance to it, I suppose, and that's a potpourri.
26:41And a potpourri, again, can be used figuratively to mean a whole assortment of things.
26:45You might talk about a potpourri of influences, or it can be a medley of music as well.
26:50See, that's got a really unsavoury beginning, because it actually goes back to the Spanish,
26:54meaning putrid pot.
26:57And, again, it was a cooking term, and it was just lots and lots of different ingredients
27:01thrown in and kept over a stove for a very long time.
27:05Quite why it was putrid and smelly by the end of it, we're not sure, but certainly it
27:09was cooked for a very long time.
27:11Perhaps that's why.
27:12Perhaps eventually it turned and gave off a not very nice smell.
27:15Today, of course, we use it very differently.
27:17Potpourri is quite nice smelling.
27:18And finally, balderdash.
27:21Now, balderdash today means nonsense, piffle, etc.
27:24But actually, that too was once a medley of different ingredients cooked in a pot, only
27:29this time the ingredients were really quite disgusting.
27:31Milk and beer, beer and wine.
27:33And if you look at one novel by Tobias Smollett, he talks about a wine merchant of Nice that
27:41added to his particular bottles pigeon dung and quicklime.
27:46But balderdash, again, was a kind of confused mixture of ingredients, and eventually it became
27:50known as something which is not particularly nice ingredients, appropriately, and complete
27:55nonsense.
27:55Oh, well done.
27:59Very good.
28:01As always, thank you, Susie.
28:03Now, 70 plays 53.
28:06David on 70.
28:07Gabriel's letters game.
28:09Good luck, Gabriel.
28:10Could I start with a vowel, please?
28:13Thank you, Gabriel.
28:14A.
28:15And a constant.
28:17R.
28:18And a second.
28:20N.
28:21One more.
28:23T.
28:24And a second vowel.
28:27I.
28:28And a third.
28:31O.
28:32Another consonant.
28:34M.
28:35And one more.
28:38N.
28:40And finish with a vowel, please.
28:44And finish with I.
28:47Countdown.
28:48My.
28:53I.
28:54I.
28:55I.
28:56I.
28:57I.
28:58I.
29:00Gabriel. Just a six.
29:21David. Sex.
29:23Gabriel. Ration.
29:24And David. I'm Russian.
29:26There we go. Two rations.
29:28Any more rations?
29:29The only other ration is a nation, but it doesn't get us to be on six.
29:32Same?
29:32Yeah.
29:33All right. Six it is then. 76 to 59.
29:36And David, final letters game for you.
29:39And a consonant, please.
29:40Thank you, David.
29:41R.
29:43And another.
29:45S.
29:45And a third.
29:47T.
29:49And another.
29:51S.
29:52And a vowel.
29:53E.
29:54And another vowel.
29:56O.
29:57A third vowel.
30:00I.
30:02A consonant.
30:03G.
30:04And a final consonant, please.
30:07And a final R.
30:09Go, Dan.
30:09And a vowel.
30:11And a vowel.
30:11And a vowel.
30:11And a vowel.
30:12And a vowel.
30:12And a vowel.
30:13And a vowel.
30:13And a vowel.
30:13And a vowel.
30:13And a vowel.
30:14And a vowel.
30:15And a vowel.
30:15And a vowel.
30:15And a vowel.
30:15And a vowel.
30:16And a vowel.
30:16And a vowel.
30:16And a vowel.
30:16And a vowel.
30:17And a vowel.
30:17And a vowel.
30:18And a vowel.
30:19And a vowel.
30:19And a vowel.
30:19And a vowel.
30:20And a vowel.
30:21And a vowel.
30:21And a vowel.
30:21And a vowel.
30:22And a vowel.
30:23And a vowel.
30:23And a vowel.
30:24And a vowel.
30:24And a vowel.
30:24And a vowel.
30:24And a vowel.
30:25And a vowel.
30:25David.
30:41I think I've got an eight.
30:43Not written down.
30:44Gabriel.
30:45Eight.
30:46David.
30:47Sorriest.
30:48Mm-hmm.
30:49Gabriel.
30:49Resistor.
30:51Sorriest is absolutely brilliant.
30:53Yep, very, very good indeed.
30:55And Resistor, I think, is also excellent.
30:59Yeah, that's an addition.
31:00Very good.
31:01Well done.
31:03Well, they're on eight now.
31:05Mark and Susie?
31:07We had a couple of sevens, didn't we?
31:09Rosiest and Tigress.
31:11A Tigress.
31:12Yeah.
31:12Very good.
31:1384 to 67.
31:15Gabriel, numbers game for you.
31:16Thanks.
31:18Let's mix it up a little.
31:19Let's go two from the top.
31:22Two from the top.
31:22Please.
31:2317 behind, 20 points remaining.
31:26It's not over yet.
31:26Thank you, Gabriel.
31:27The final numbers game today is nine, two, another two, eight, and then the large two, 75 and 100.
31:35And the target?
31:37579.
31:385-7-9.
31:58GABRIEL
32:11No, no, too far away, nothing
32:14Nope
32:16577
32:17So David
32:1975 minus 2
32:2175 minus 2, 73
32:23Times 8
32:24Times by 8 is 584
32:27And 9 minus 2 is 7, take away
32:309 minus the other 2, 7
32:32577
32:34There we are, Rachel
32:35579?
32:37Yes, there were a couple of ways
32:39So if you start with 75 times 9 is 675
32:43And then you can take away 100 and add 2 2s
32:47579
32:48That's the way it's done
32:49Thank you, Rachel
32:50So 91 to 67
32:55As we go into the final round
32:57Gentlemen, you know the story
32:58You know how it works
32:59Fingers on buzzers
33:00We're about to roll
33:01Today's Countdown
33:02Conundrum
33:03GABRIEL
33:04I thought it was unculted
33:08This 2Cs
33:09No
33:09Nope
33:10Down to you
33:11David
33:12Yes, David
33:24Is that Accounted?
33:26Accounted?
33:27I wonder whether you're right
33:27Let's have a look
33:28Here we go
33:29Accounted
33:30Well done
33:30Well done
33:33101
33:35That's excellent stuff
33:37101
33:38Well done
33:39Gabriel, bad luck
33:40Bad luck
33:41You played well
33:41You held on to him very well
33:44But in the end he came storming through
33:46101
33:46Very good score
33:47But 67 is not that bad either
33:49So take your goodie bag
33:51Back to London
33:52Good luck with the work you're doing
33:54It's a great job to have
33:55Thank you
33:55All right
33:56Well done
33:56We shall see you
33:57David
33:58Tomorrow
33:59Congratulations
34:00Three wins
34:01Brilliant
34:02See you tomorrow
34:02And we shall see Mark and Susie tomorrow as well
34:05More stories from the sports field
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34:08And Rachel
34:10See you tomorrow
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34:13Out of my mind
34:14That you told at the top of the show
34:15You think that was bad?
34:17I think I might need longer
34:17I tell you what
34:20I stumbled out of that surgery
34:21I could tell you that much
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