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00:17Thank you very much.
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, here's the big question. Are you a morning lark or a night owl?
00:39Big question. Let me tell you that some Nobel Prize winning research has managed to explain how molecular feedback loops
00:48keep time in all animals, including us, apparently.
00:51Now, the stability of a protein called PER can determine whether our clock ticks more quickly or more slowly.
00:58And that's why some people describe themselves as morning people or night owls.
01:05I'm a night owl. I can stay up all night, subject to having had a three hour siesta in the
01:12afternoon.
01:13What about you? Are you a morning person or a night person?
01:17Absolutely not a morning person, never in my whole life.
01:20I remember when I was a kid once, I think I got up in the middle of the night, got
01:23dressed for school so I could have an extra half an hour in bed in the morning.
01:26So that's how much I value a lie in. I just can't do it.
01:28I don't understand these kids that just get up and they're bright and chirpy.
01:32I know.
01:32It's never like that. And as a teenager, it gets worse. And I've continued that into my 30s.
01:36Good for you. Well, I'm very much the same. But can you stay up partying?
01:41Absolutely. At uni, I'd stay up till five working, but trying to get up for 10 o'clock lectures, impossible.
01:47Horrible. Quite right. Now, I'll tell you who's got up, Rachel. It's Mary Bainbridge, retired teacher from Lechley, the pretty
01:54Cotswold town in Gloucestershire.
01:55And she beat Jacob, a four-time winner. So you're welcome. How are you feeling?
02:00So-so.
02:01I think you're a very calm person, actually, Mary.
02:03I try to be.
02:04Well, it certainly comes across that way. Well, good luck to you today.
02:08Now, you're competing against Glenn Burke, a credit control handler from Dublin.
02:12A golfer, plays off 13, but once got a hole in one on a par four.
02:16Yeah, I was playing my local course with my dad and a couple others, so pure blind luck.
02:21Happy days. But they were there to witness it.
02:23Thankfully, yeah. Otherwise, no one would believe me.
02:25Exactly. That's the drama about holding ones. Did they buy you a drink after us? I hope they did.
02:30And a bar was clothed.
02:31I hope so. Well, listen, good luck to you both. Let's have a big round of applause for Mary and
02:35Glenn.
02:40And Susie's in the corner. Susie's in the corner with a new guest.
02:45It's great to welcome, for the first time, from Antiques Road Trip, Flog It and Bargain Hunt, Antiques expert Raj
02:52Bisran.
02:53Welcome, Mary.
02:54Welcome.
02:58And I had a chat with Raj earlier and fascinating. Lots of interesting things. You're going to educate us, Raj.
03:04That's what you're going to do.
03:05I hope so.
03:05All right. Now, Mary. Off we go.
03:09Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:10Good afternoon, Mary.
03:11Could I start with a consonant, please?
03:13Thank you. Start today with N.
03:14And another consonant, please.
03:19And another consonant, please.
03:25A.
03:25And another vowel.
03:27O.
03:28And a third vowel.
03:29A.
03:31And another consonant.
03:34T.
03:36And another consonant.
03:38C.
03:41And another vowel, please.
03:45And lastly, E.
03:47And here's the countdown clock.
04:17I'll see you next time.
04:20Yes, Mary?
04:21Um, six.
04:22A six, Glenn?
04:24Just a five there.
04:24And that five?
04:26Inact.
04:26Now, Mary?
04:27Notate.
04:29Notate.
04:29Very nice.
04:30Good countdown word there?
04:31Yes.
04:32Notate.
04:33And in the corner?
04:34Well, we've got a seven-letter word.
04:36Yes.
04:36Content.
04:37Very good.
04:38Susie?
04:38Oh, nice way to start the show.
04:40It'll do.
04:40Yep.
04:41Six points to Mary Ann.
04:43And it's Glenn's letters game.
04:44Hi, Rachel.
04:45Hi, Glenn.
04:46I'll start with a consonant, please.
04:48Start with Y.
04:49And another.
04:51R.
04:53And another.
04:54S.
04:56Vowel, please.
04:58U.
04:59Another vowel.
05:00A.
05:02And another.
05:04E.
05:06Conson, please.
05:08M.
05:10Vowel.
05:12I.
05:14And a consonant to finish, please.
05:17And lastly, K.
05:18Countdown.
05:20Countdown.
05:53Glenn.
05:54Misery.
05:55Mary.
05:56Makers.
05:58Any more misery in the corner?
06:00Yeah, we've got misery, but I think Susie's got a seven.
06:04Those are seven.
06:05They're muskier.
06:05More musky.
06:06Muskier.
06:07Yes.
06:0812th place.
06:09Six.
06:10And numbers.
06:11Mary.
06:13Five small ones and one big one, please, Rachel.
06:15Thank you, Mary.
06:16Traditional one from the top to kick us off today.
06:18And this first selection is one, five, three, seven, four.
06:25And the big one, 100.
06:26And your target, 888.
06:29888.
07:01Mary.
07:02888.
07:03And Glenn.
07:04No, just 8, 9 out there.
07:06So, Mary.
07:074 plus 7 is 11.
07:10Yep.
07:10Add that on to 100.
07:12111.
07:135 plus 3 is 8.
07:15And multiply them together.
07:17Perfect.
07:18888.
07:18Thank you, Mary.
07:24Well done.
07:25So, 22 plays, Glenn.
07:27Six.
07:27As we turn to our first tea time teaser, which is Miss Emote.
07:31And the clue, you don't always spot the answer, just every now and again.
07:36You don't always spot the answer, just every now and again.
07:55Welcome back.
07:56I'm left with the clue.
07:56So, you don't always spot the answer, just every now and again.
08:01Sometimes.
08:02That's what we're talking about.
08:04Sometimes.
08:0522 plays 6.
08:06Mary on 22.
08:07And it's Glenn's letters game.
08:09Consonant, please, Rachel.
08:11Thank you, Glenn.
08:12V.
08:13And another.
08:15L.
08:16And another.
08:18R.
08:20Vowel.
08:21E.
08:22Another vowel, please.
08:24A.
08:25Another vowel.
08:28E.
08:29Consonant.
08:31J.
08:33Consonant.
08:35L.
08:37And a final vowel, please.
08:40And a final I.
08:42Stand by.
09:14Yes, Glenn?
09:16Six.
09:16Six.
09:17Mary?
09:17Six also.
09:19Okay.
09:20Reveal.
09:20And Mary?
09:22Lever.
09:22With an A.
09:23Yes.
09:24A lever, yeah.
09:25Now, Raj.
09:26Well, we've got a six-letter one as well.
09:28Jailor.
09:29Susie, anything else?
09:30Relive is also there, but we couldn't get beyond six.
09:34All right.
09:34So, 28 plays 12, and it's Mary's letters game.
09:37Yes, Mary?
09:38Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:40Thank you, Mary.
09:40M.
09:41And a second one.
09:43G.
09:44And a third one.
09:46H.
09:47And a vowel, please.
09:49U.
09:50And a second vowel.
09:52I.
09:53And a third vowel.
09:55O.
09:56And a consonant, please.
09:58N.
09:59And another consonant.
10:02T.
10:04And it's finally another consonant.
10:06And lastly, N.
10:09Countdown.
10:11And a consonant.
10:28And a consonant.
10:28And a consonant.
10:29And a consonant.
10:29And a consonant.
10:29And a consonant.
10:31And a consonant.
10:40Mary?
10:41Eight.
10:42And Glenn?
10:43Eight as well.
10:44Mary?
10:45Mounting.
10:46And?
10:47Yeah.
10:47Mounting there.
10:51Now, any more eights in the corner, I wonder?
10:54I haven't got any more eights.
10:56We've got a couple of sevens over here.
10:58Hunting and nothing.
11:00Susie?
11:01You can have mouthing as well as mounting, if you wanted.
11:04Mouthing.
11:04Yeah.
11:05Mouthing insults.
11:0736 plays.
11:0820 now.
11:09Numbers for Glenn.
11:11Yes, Glenn?
11:11I'll have one from the top and five.
11:13Smile, please, Rachel.
11:13Thank you, Glenn.
11:14One large again.
11:15And five little again.
11:16And this time they are ten.
11:19One.
11:20Three.
11:22Another ten.
11:23Two.
11:24And a big one.
11:25Seventy-five.
11:26And this target, 811.
11:29Eight.
11:29One.
11:30One.
11:31Two.
11:32One.
11:59One.
12:01Yes, Glenn?
12:028-1-1.
12:03Mary?
12:048-1-1, but not written down properly.
12:07So, Mary?
12:08Um, 75 times 13.
12:12How did you make your 13, Mary?
12:14Sorry, um, I got the 13 by, um, 10 plus 3.
12:19By 10 plus 3 for 975.
12:22Oh, I've gone wrong.
12:24Sorry, Mary.
12:25Oh, bad luck.
12:26Glenn?
12:27Um, 3 times 2 was 6.
12:29Yep.
12:29Uh, plus 75.
12:3181.
12:32Times 10.
12:33810.
12:34And there's a 1 there, hopefully.
12:35Lovely, there is indeed.
12:368-11.
12:37Well done.
12:41Well done.
12:43Bounces you up to 30 points to Mary's 36th as we turn to Raj.
12:48Raj, I mean, your life is immersed in antiques, but you started as a young boy, I think.
12:54I started collecting when I was 10.
12:57I bought my first item when I used to walk to school and I passed the pawnbrokers.
13:01And that's really what got me interested.
13:03And we had antiques in the house and it's just something that I could never get out of me.
13:09And, uh, when I retired from sport and came back from Austria, my wife and I decided that we would
13:16try and make a go because she had a passion for antiques as well.
13:18So we would started dabbling from home.
13:21But we'd been going for around six months and we were selling to friends most of the time.
13:25We decided to make the big break and look for a shop.
13:28So we went to our nearest town, which was Hastings.
13:31And we looked for a road that was suitable.
13:34And we found this road.
13:35And in the road, there were three shops and they were all next to each other.
13:40Three very big shops.
13:42So we had a look around all of them and we decided to go for the one in the middle.
13:45And we kitted it out.
13:48It looked fantastic.
13:49And we put a big sign above the shop and it said Raj and Sue Bizram Antiques.
13:53And we opened up for business and everything was great.
13:56And we started to go to auctions to replenish our stock.
14:01And we'd go to the auction rooms and we'd hand out our cards, trying to encourage other dealers to come
14:05down and have a look.
14:06And they kept saying to us, well, are there any other antique shops in the area?
14:10And we said no, because we thought that was a good thing.
14:12But actually, in the antiques world, the more shops you have, the better it is.
14:16So we were just hoping that maybe the other two shops, either side of us, would open up as antique
14:21shops.
14:21And sure enough, three months later, the shop on our right opened up as an antique shop.
14:27And there were a nice couple, kitted it out.
14:29It was a lovely stock.
14:31And they put a big sign above their shop and it said best quality and cheapest antiques in Hastings.
14:38Well, I liked the shop, but I wasn't too happy about the sign, but there was nothing I could do.
14:45And again, about two months after that, the shop on our left opened up as an antique shop.
14:50And again, they kitted it out and it brought more business in, which was fantastic.
14:55But they put a sign above their shop and it said best quality antiques in the southeast.
15:02So, you know, this again, it bugged me, but there was nothing I could do.
15:05It did bring business in.
15:07And then one Friday it came to me and I phoned up the sign writer and I said, look, I
15:12need my sign to come down on Friday afternoon and it needs to go back up on Monday morning.
15:18Can you do that?
15:19He said, yeah.
15:20Monday morning came and I walked my wife up the street and there were the two shops either side of
15:27ours.
15:27One that said best quality and cheapest antiques in Hastings and on the left, best quality antiques in the southeast.
15:35And there was my new sign.
15:37And do you know what it said?
15:38Go on.
15:39Main entrance.
15:40Yeah.
15:44Amazing.
15:50Thank you so much, Raj.
15:52Now, 36 to 30, nothing in it.
15:55It's Mary's letters game.
15:57Yes, Mary.
15:57I'll start with a consonant, please.
16:00Thank you, Mary.
16:00S.
16:01And another consonant.
16:03N.
16:04And a third one.
16:06S.
16:07And a vowel, please.
16:09A.
16:10And another vowel.
16:12U.
16:13And a third vowel.
16:15E.
16:16And a consonant, please.
16:18G.
16:19And another consonant.
16:21D.
16:22And a vowel, please.
16:24And finally, A.
16:26Done by.
16:27Bye-bye.
16:28Bye-bye.
16:30Bye-bye.
16:30Bye-bye.
16:30Bye-bye.
16:30Bye-bye.
16:30Bye-bye.
16:31Bye-bye.
16:31Bye-bye.
16:32Bye-bye.
16:34Bye-bye.
16:49Bye-bye.
16:58Mary?
16:59Seven.
17:00And Glenn?
17:01Just six there.
17:03What is that six?
17:05Gassed.
17:06Gassed and Mary?
17:07Sausage.
17:09Sausage.
17:10Very good.
17:10Now, Raj and Susie?
17:12Well, I've got sausage as well.
17:14Yes.
17:14Susie?
17:15Agendas were also there for seven.
17:17And an eight last minute egg, assuaged.
17:20A-W-S-U-H-E-E-D.
17:22To soothe or calm.
17:24Assuaged one's guilt.
17:25Thank you very much.
17:27APPLAUSE
17:30Very good.
17:3143, page 30.
17:33And Glenn, let us go.
17:35Start with a constant, please.
17:36Thank you, Glenn.
17:37R.
17:38And another.
17:40N.
17:41And another.
17:43T.
17:44And a vowel, please.
17:47O.
17:48Another vowel.
17:50E.
17:50And another.
17:52A.
17:54Conson, please.
17:55S.
17:57Another consonant.
17:59M.
18:01And a final consonant, please.
18:05And a final T.
18:06And the clock starts now.
18:07One.
18:09One.
18:25One.
18:26One.
18:27One.
18:38Yes, then?
18:39Erm, I'll try an eight.
18:42Mary?
18:42Seven.
18:43What is that seven?
18:45Matrons.
18:46Matrons?
18:46Glenn?
18:47Ornaments?
18:49Erm, you need two Ns for ornaments.
18:51Ah, sorry.
18:52Unfortunately.
18:53I'm sorry.
18:54Sorry, Glenn.
18:55Good luck.
18:56And the corner, Rush?
18:57Well, we had Toaster, but we've got an eight as well.
19:00Yes.
19:01Storman.
19:01Well done.
19:02All right.
19:03So, 50 plays 30, and it's numbers.
19:06The numbers are going for Mary.
19:07Yes, can I have one from the top and five small ones, please?
19:11The usual, lately.
19:12Thank you, Mary.
19:13One large five little egg in, and this time they are four, five, seven, three, ten, and
19:2150.
19:22And the target?
19:23One hundred and three.
19:25One oh three.
19:27One oh three.
20:01Yeah, 1 or 3.
20:02So, Mary.
20:037 minus 5 is 2.
20:05Yep.
20:05Multiply it by 50 for 100 and add 3.
20:08We can all do that mention a bit.
20:10Glenn.
20:11I took 3 from 5 to make the 2, times by 50, and 7 from 10 for the 3.
20:17Lovely.
20:17So, 60 plays 40, Mary on 60's.
20:20We return to our second tea time teaser, which is Night More.
20:24And the clue, she's getting up a lot more in the night to look after her new baby.
20:28She's getting up a lot more in the night to look after her new baby.
20:48Welcome back.
20:49Welcome back.
20:49I left you with a clue.
20:50She's getting up a lot more in the night to look after her new baby.
20:54Because she's mothering it.
20:57Mothering.
20:58So, 60 plays 40.
21:00Mary on 60, and it's Glenn's letters game.
21:03Constance, please, Rachel.
21:05Thank you, Glenn.
21:05And another.
21:09M.
21:10And another.
21:12V.
21:14Vowel.
21:15E.
21:17Another vowel.
21:18U.
21:19Another vowel, please.
21:21I.
21:23Consonant.
21:25D.
21:26Another consonant.
21:29S.
21:30And a final consonant, please.
21:33And a final R.
21:34Countdown.
21:36Countdown.
21:37TUNAN.
21:37TUNAN.
21:38TUNAN.
21:50Countdown.
21:51TUNAN.
21:51TUNAN.
21:51TUNAN.
21:51TUNAN.
21:51TUNAN.
21:51TUNAN.
21:51TUNAN.
21:59TUNAN.
22:06Glenn?
22:07Just six there.
22:08Mary?
22:09Six also.
22:10Glenn?
22:11Drives.
22:12Now, Mary?
22:13Fivers.
22:14Fivers.
22:15Yes.
22:16And in the corner, Raj?
22:18We've got divers.
22:20Divers, fivers and divers.
22:22Susie?
22:22There's also fervid.
22:24You might have a fervid imagination.
22:25Excessively passionate or excitable, almost.
22:29Fervid.
22:30Yes.
22:3166 to 46.
22:33It's Mary's letters game.
22:35Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
22:37Thank you, Mary.
22:37T.
22:38And a vowel, please.
22:41A.
22:41And another consonant.
22:44N.
22:45And a vowel.
22:46O.
22:47And a consonant.
22:49W.
22:51And another consonant.
22:53H.
22:54And a vowel, please.
22:56I.
22:57And a consonant.
22:59T.
23:01And a final vowel.
23:03And a final E.
23:05Stand by.
23:06Bear with me.
23:11Bye.
23:17Bye.
23:19Bye.
23:22Bye.
23:24Bye.
23:32Bye.
23:37Mary.
23:38Six.
23:39Yes, Glenn.
23:39I'll try six.
23:41Mary.
23:42Whiten.
23:43And Glenn.
23:44Panty.
23:45You can't.
23:46I'm afraid Glenn has to be in the plural.
23:48No worries.
23:49Sorry.
23:51Worth a try.
23:52And Raj.
23:54We had Whiten, but Susie's got a seven as well, I think.
23:58Yes, linguistics term, this one.
24:00To phonate, to utter a sound.
24:03Phonate.
24:05So 72 to 46, and now we turn back to Susie for her wonderful origins of words.
24:12Now, today, Susie.
24:13Well, I was asked by one of our audience members, actually, Eamon Kelly, where the expression
24:18to take the guilt off the gingerbread comes from.
24:21It's a slightly dated expression now.
24:23It means simply to strip something of its appeal.
24:27Modern version, I'm told, is who took the jam out of your doughnut?
24:31It's a similar sort of thing.
24:32And as I say, on the face of it, it's a pretty curious one.
24:35But when you realise just how elaborate old cakes used to be, it begins to make sense.
24:40It was five centuries or so ago.
24:42So treacle and ginger and other spices were incredibly exotic, brought over from afar.
24:48And so they were treated with some reverence, and cakes flavoured with them were equally prized.
24:53Many of them would be marked with the shape of a saint or another sacred image, and then coloured over,
24:58or even covered with gold leaf.
25:01So gilded in a very literal sense.
25:03And so the cost, as you can imagine, of such exotic ingredients meant that originally these confections were originally enjoyed
25:10only by the rich.
25:11But as they became more affordable, gaudy versions used to appear, and they became a staple at fairgrounds up and
25:17down the land.
25:18All of which explains why taking the guilt off the gingerbread made absolute sense to people in the 18th and
25:2519th century.
25:25Meanwhile, gingerbread itself became a byword, if you like, for something that was showy, but rather worthless.
25:31And to be a knight of the gingerbreads, I like this one, was to be all mouth and to no
25:35trousers.
25:38Trumperiness, incidentally, is a modern version of that.
25:40Well, not a modern version, it's quite old, but you might think it's got modern resonance.
25:44But there's another word based on a commodity that took a downward turn from something very precious to something quite
25:50shoddy.
25:51And its story is slightly better known.
25:53And it goes back to Ethel Dreda, who was one of the five daughters of the King of the East
25:58Angles in Suffolk.
26:00And she was nicknamed Audrey, and she founded a religious community at Eli.
26:04And the Norman Cathedral still stands there on the site of the abbey that she built.
26:09She eventually died of a tumour of her throat, and she blamed this affliction as punishment for earlier vanity.
26:16She loved wearing quite fancy, fine necklaces.
26:19Audrey later became a saint, and on the 17th of October each year, her saint's day was marked with a
26:24lot of feasting and fun and fairs, definitely fairs.
26:29And at these fairs, we sold laces and fringes for wearing about the neck, if you like, in Audrey's honour.
26:36They were St Audrey's laces, which became shortened to tawdry laces.
26:40And that, of course, is how English came to adopt the adjective tawdry, meaning something that looks pretty good on
26:46the outside, but is actually pretty cheap.
26:49Very good.
26:55Tawdry.
26:55Well done.
26:57Fascinating.
26:5772 to 46.
26:59Glenn, your letters game, Glenn.
27:01Start with a vowel, please, this time, Rachel.
27:03Thank you, Glenn.
27:03A.
27:04And another.
27:05I.
27:06And another.
27:08E.
27:09And a consonant, please.
27:11D.
27:12And another consonant.
27:13P.
27:14And another consonant, please.
27:16S.
27:18A vowel.
27:20I.
27:21A consonant.
27:23M.
27:25And a consonant to finish, please.
27:27And a final cue.
27:30Stand by.
27:30A.
28:01Yes, then.
28:03Just five there.
28:04Mary.
28:05Five also.
28:06Glenn.
28:07Aimed.
28:08No, Mary.
28:09Spade.
28:11We beat five, I wonder.
28:13Raj?
28:14No, we've got a five.
28:16Difficult one, that one.
28:17Maids.
28:18Yes.
28:19Susie.
28:20Um, no.
28:21I was hoping there was an alternative spelling of dimpsy, which I love, meaning dusky, but that's only with a
28:26Y.
28:26So five was it for us.
28:28That's it.
28:28Yeah.
28:2977 to 51 into the final letters game.
28:33Mary.
28:34I'll start with a consonant, please.
28:36Thank you, Mary.
28:37L.
28:38And another one.
28:40T.
28:41And a vowel, please.
28:43E.
28:44And another vowel.
28:46A.
28:47And a consonant, please.
28:49S.
28:50And another vowel.
28:52E.
28:53And a consonant.
28:55F.
28:57And another consonant.
29:00R.
29:01And a final consonant, please.
29:04And lastly, G.
29:06Gung, Gung.
29:08Gung, Gung, Gung.
29:11Gung, Gung, Gung, Gung, Gung.
29:38Mary.
29:39A risky seven.
29:40Glenn.
29:41I'll stick with six.
29:43And your six.
29:44Eh, graphs.
29:45Now, Mary.
29:47Felters.
29:48Oh, OK.
29:51Erm.
29:52Oh, it's not there, Mary.
29:53I'm sure it was once upon a time, but not there anymore, I'm afraid.
29:57Sorry.
29:57What can we have?
29:59Raj, Susie?
30:00Well, I've got a six.
30:02Grease.
30:02Yes.
30:03But Susie has an eight.
30:05Yes, reflate is there.
30:07That comes up from time to time.
30:09It is to do with putting an economic stimulus by the government to financial affairs, to reflate.
30:16To reflate, yeah.
30:21So, 20 points in it, 77 to 57, as we turn to the final numbers game.
30:27Glenn Berg.
30:29I'll try six more, please, Rachel.
30:30Six more.
30:30Good decisions.
30:3120 points remaining and 20 points left to get.
30:34So, got to gamble.
30:35Thank you, Glenn.
30:36The last numbers game of the day is eight, three, two, five, six, and nine.
30:43And your target, 483.
30:46Four, eight, three.
30:48Four, three, two, five, six, and seven.
31:17Yes, Glen? Yeah, 483. Mary? 483. Glen? Eight sixes are 48. Yep. Five twos are ten. They are. And multiply
31:28them together. And add the three. Well done, 483. Same way. And Mary, too.
31:36Thank you. Good. So still at 20.87 to 67 as we move into the final round. Fingers on buzzers.
31:48Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:04Yes, Glen?
32:05It's supported. Supported. Let's see whether you're right. Supported. Well done.
32:14So well done. Well done, Glen. Good performance. 77 points. Excellent. Thanks very much. Very good player.
32:21You take this goodie bag back to Dublin. Well done. Thanks, Nick. And Mary, two good wins. Well done.
32:26Thank you. He was closing on you for a while. I know. All right. We'll see you tomorrow. Thank you.
32:30Well done. And see you both tomorrow. But before you go, you were in the military, learnt to ski. Before
32:37you could say, you know, knife, as it were.
32:40You were slicing down the slopes at incredible speeds and went on to manage a ski stunt team. Tell us
32:45a bit about your skiing.
32:47Well, one of the crazy things we used to do back in those days when I was ski racing, we
32:54didn't have a lot of money.
32:55So we couldn't afford to get all the equipment and continue to go up and down the mountain.
33:00So what we used to do to get used to the speed is there was a racetrack near us and
33:05we used to have a, I remember, an old Volvo estate with a roof rack.
33:10And we used to have our skis on, all the equipment on, and we'd strap ourselves to the top of
33:14the roof rack.
33:16No, that's exactly what we used to do. And one of the guys would just drive us and we would
33:21gradually get used to the speed.
33:23And that was how we trained. In the old days, that is exactly how we trained. We would build up
33:28the speed slowly each, you know, after a few more drinks, we'd go a little bit faster.
33:34You were strapped to a roof rack on top of a Volvo? Yeah. Hurtling downhill?
33:39No, no, not, no. We were going around a racetrack. It was all about getting us used to the speed
33:44and the wind.
33:45And that's how we used to do it. Looking back on it now, it seems crazy. But in those days,
33:52it was the norm.
33:54Amazing. More from you tomorrow. More from you tomorrow.
33:57See you tomorrow? Yes, see you then.
33:58All right. You fancy that, Nick? I do not.
34:01I've got a Volvo. What can we tie him to?
34:04We'll do Whit Brown with the audience. See who's got the best car.
34:07All right. See you tomorrow.
34:08See you tomorrow.
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