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00:16Thank you so much for watching.
00:31Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34There are, of course, unwritten rules about the way one eats food,
00:38but there are people out there who like to break them,
00:41and then people get really cross with them.
00:45Extraordinary sort of waste of time, really.
00:47Try this one, Rachel.
00:48Eating oranges without breaking it into segments.
00:51What, just... You've got a big mouth for that.
00:53Would you eat a kiwi fruit whole?
00:56No.
00:57Would you eat it with the skin on?
00:59This is a really strange line of question.
01:02It's going to go on a dodgy website.
01:03I know. It's all here.
01:03This is what the research people...
01:05No.
01:05People who eat the crust off a pizza first,
01:08others who eat doughnuts with a knife and fork.
01:10Do you eat a banana by nibbling along its length?
01:14Or do you pop it right in?
01:18Nick Hewer.
01:19These are the sort of things that are online at the moment.
01:23Well, have you seen that monkeys eat banana the other way around,
01:26so they hold the bit that we normally peel.
01:28So they've got a little handle.
01:30It's genius.
01:30And have you seen the proper way of eating a pineapple?
01:32This was revolutionary.
01:33It was like a viral video where you have a pineapple,
01:36and you can actually break the bits off.
01:39I don't know what the official name of the knobs on a pineapple is,
01:42I'll have to ask Susie,
01:42but you can just pull the bits off, and it's amazing.
01:45We've been doing it wrong forever.
01:47Oh, and it works like that.
01:48It works, yeah.
01:49You get a whole little spiny bits.
01:51Yep.
01:51May I introduce you to our competitors today?
01:53Please do.
01:54James Horton, you're back again.
01:57How many wins?
01:58Five wins?
01:59Yes.
02:00High score of 134.
02:01It's fantastic.
02:02Well done.
02:04Have a good day today.
02:05You're joined by Rob Payne.
02:07Welcome, Rob.
02:08Welcome, Rob.
02:08A police control room dispatcher from Farnham.
02:11You're the guy that distributes the calls,
02:13tells which cars to go where, I guess.
02:15I do, yes.
02:16That's brilliant.
02:17And you're a big Arsenal fan?
02:18Unfortunately.
02:19Yeah.
02:20And you watch them lift the FA Cup, it says here.
02:23Not nick the FA Cup, presumably, but hold it up for iteration.
02:27I have.
02:27I've been to four finals, so I've been quite lucky.
02:30Yeah?
02:30Yeah.
02:31My son's a big Arsenal fan.
02:33I'm sort of, if I'm anywhere, I'm with Spurs,
02:35so we hardly ever speak to each other.
02:37There we are.
02:38Listen, have a lot of fun today, Rob and James.
02:41James says what it's all about.
02:42Big round of applause for our two competitors.
02:50And Susie's over there.
02:51Susie, what do you call the knob on the end of a pineapple?
02:54I have absolutely no idea, but I'll try and find out by the end of the programme.
02:57Oh, I don't know.
02:59And of course, you're sitting next to that wonderful, brilliant, satirical impressionist,
03:03the wonderful, the wonderful Rory Bremner.
03:05Welcome back, Rory.
03:11Great man.
03:12Now, James, off we go.
03:14Letters game.
03:15Hi, Rachel.
03:16Hi, James.
03:17Could you, please, could I have a consonant?
03:20Start with S.
03:22And a consonant?
03:24N.
03:26Consonant?
03:28L.
03:30Consonant?
03:31C.
03:34Vowel, please.
03:36O.
03:37And another?
03:39A.
03:40Vowel, please.
03:42U.
03:47Consonant?
03:49H.
03:51And a final vowel, please.
03:55A final E.
03:57Stand by.
04:28Well, James.
04:31Um, stick with an eight.
04:34An eight.
04:34And Rob?
04:35Just a six.
04:36And your six?
04:37Uncles.
04:38And James?
04:39Uh, launches.
04:42Very good.
04:43You happy, Susie?
04:44Very happy with that, yes.
04:45Yes, we had launches as well, so eight, yep.
04:47Thanks.
04:48Thanks, Rory.
04:48That's it, Susie?
04:49That's it, yes.
04:50OK.
04:51Early start for James there.
04:53Rob?
04:54Rob, your letters game.
04:56Hi, Rachel.
04:57Hi, Rob.
04:57Um, can I have a consonant, please?
05:00Start with R.
05:02And a consonant.
05:03C.
05:05And another, please.
05:07L.
05:08A vowel.
05:09I.
05:10Another vowel.
05:12A.
05:13A consonant.
05:15T.
05:17A consonant.
05:19H.
05:20A vowel.
05:22E.
05:23And a final consonant, please.
05:26And a final R.
05:28Stand by.
05:28A consonant.
05:30A consonant.
05:33A consonant.
05:59Well, Rob?
06:00Seven.
06:01Seven, thank you, James.
06:03Seven.
06:04Rob?
06:04Charter.
06:06And?
06:07Recital.
06:08Nice.
06:09And recital.
06:10Yes.
06:10Two good sevens.
06:11Yeah.
06:12Rory and Susie?
06:15Erratic.
06:17Yes, that's me.
06:19Anything else?
06:20But that was, yeah, that's also seven.
06:22Article, another seven.
06:24No, eight.
06:25Thanks, Rory.
06:26Fifteen plays, seven.
06:28And now, James, first numbers game of the day.
06:30Off we go.
06:31Usual, please.
06:32Thought you might say that you have a usual now.
06:34All the top row.
06:35And two little ones.
06:36Thank you, James.
06:37This time, the small numbers are two and five.
06:40And your big ones?
06:41Twenty-five, fifty, one hundred and seventy-five.
06:45And the target?
06:46One hundred and eighty-eight.
06:48One-eight-eight.
06:51The threat?
07:21Well, James?
07:22188.
07:24And Rob?
07:25187.
07:26187.
07:27Let's try James first, shall we, James?
07:29100 minus 5 is 95.
07:33Multiply by 2 is 190.
07:36Yep.
07:36And then 50 divided by 25 is 2, and take it away.
07:39Well done.
07:40188.
07:41Neatly done.
07:41Well done.
07:45Well done.
07:4625 to 7.
07:48This is James, and early lead as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is what'll
07:53be in the clue.
07:54Que sera, sera.
07:55You can definitely put this on social media.
07:58Que sera, sera.
08:00You can definitely put this on social media.
08:12Oh, welcome back.
08:20I left with the clue.
08:21Que sera, sera.
08:22You can definitely put this on social media, because it is tweetable.
08:28It's tweetable.
08:29All right.
08:3025 plays 7.
08:31James in the lead.
08:32Rob, your letters game.
08:34A consonant, please.
08:35Thank you, Rob.
08:36S.
08:37And another.
08:39N.
08:40And another.
08:42M.
08:43And a vowel.
08:45O.
08:46Another vowel.
08:48I.
08:49A consonant.
08:51D.
08:52A consonant.
08:54G.
08:55A vowel.
08:57E.
08:58And a final consonant, please.
09:01And a final F.
09:03Stand by.
09:03A consonant.
09:05A consonant.
09:20A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:21A consonant.
09:22A consonant.
09:34Rob's just a six a six for Rob and James eight an eight Rob midges midges and smidgen and smidgen
09:47smidgen a tiny amount of something you can spell lots of different ways but here it's S M I D
09:52G E O N very good
09:54smidgen
09:5933.7 James your letters game
10:02continent please Rachel
10:04thank you James
10:04M
10:06and another
10:08D
10:09and another
10:11N
10:13and another
10:15P
10:15a vowel
10:17A
10:19and another
10:20E
10:21and another
10:23U
10:25and another
10:28O
10:32and a final vowel please
10:36and a final
10:37A
10:38and it's countdown
10:40And then
11:13Yeah, James?
11:15Seven.
11:16Just a six.
11:17And six from Rob.
11:19Your six, Rob?
11:20A pomade.
11:22And?
11:22Adenoma.
11:25I see Susie reaching for the dictionary.
11:28Yeah, medical term for a benign tumour.
11:32Okay.
11:32Very, very good.
11:33Now, Rory, what do you reckon?
11:36Who are we to quibble with that?
11:37I think there was that a...
11:38What's that?
11:39Yeah, another countdown regular.
11:40The mapani, the mapani tree with the butterfly-shaped leaves.
11:44Yeah.
11:44But we weren't near that seven, so very well done.
11:47Well done, indeed.
11:48Well done.
11:5040 play seven.
11:51Rob, it's your numbers game now.
11:52Good luck.
11:53I'll have two large, please.
11:55And four small.
11:56You can, indeed.
11:57Thank you, Rob.
11:57Two from the top four, little.
11:58And for this next round, your numbers are seven, eight, nine, five, 75, and 25.
12:08And the target, 639.
12:11639.
12:11And the target, 639.
12:29And the target, 639.
12:30And the target, 639.
12:30And the target, 639.
12:30And the target, 639.
12:30And the target, 639.
12:31And the target, 639.
12:31And the target, 639.
12:32And the target, 639.
12:32And the target, 639.
12:32And the target, 639.
12:33And the target, 639.
12:33And the target, 639.
12:34And the target, 639.
12:35And the target, 639.
12:37And the target, 639.
12:43Rob, 6 to 8.
12:45Thank you, James.
12:47639.
12:48And 639.
12:50Yes, James.
12:517 minus 5 equals 2.
12:537 minus 5, 2.
12:558 divided by 2 equals 4.
12:57Yep.
12:5875 minus 4 equals 71.
13:01It is indeed.
13:02And then multiply by 9.
13:04Perfect, 639.
13:05All right, well done.
13:06Very good indeed.
13:08A good start there for James.
13:10We expect a little else as we turn to Rory.
13:13Rory, you're a linguist.
13:15You were talking about languages and translations the other day.
13:18But you're also fascinated by idioms, I'm told.
13:21What's this about?
13:22Well, it's just lovely when you try to translate word for word.
13:25But there are expressions that we have in English.
13:28And the French, they don't have the same expression.
13:29For example, we talk about window shopping.
13:32See, we talk about Susie's linguist as well.
13:34So the French don't say window shopping, do they?
13:36They say...
13:36They say...
13:39To lick the windows.
13:40Laissez les vitrines.
13:41Or, for example, we say, dressed up to the nines.
13:44They say, to put on your 31.
13:46This is another very strange...
13:48We say, kick the bucket.
13:49In France, they say, il a cassé sa pipe.
13:52Which means he's broken his pipe.
13:53And that was because Molière, the famous playwright, he died on stage.
13:57And as he died, he was smoking a pipe.
13:59And the pipe fell out of his mouth.
14:00And the little child cried, il a cassé sa pipe.
14:03So now, where we say, kick the bucket, they say, break the pipe.
14:07And there's some wonderful ones.
14:08For somebody who's quite old and a bit shaky, a bit doddery, they say, il sucre ses fraises.
14:15It means he sugars his strawberries.
14:17Because he's like that.
14:18He's sugaring his strawberries.
14:19And there's so many.
14:21Some of them are quite similar to ours.
14:22We say, remember last week you had a frog in your throat?
14:25You talked about a frog in your throat.
14:27The French, they say, you've got a cat in your throat.
14:30I think the French have got something about cats.
14:32Because we say, in English, we say, you've got other fish to fry.
14:36And the French expression for that is, j'ai d'autres chats à fouetter.
14:40Which means, I've got other cats to whip.
14:44I've got other cats to whip.
14:46What is it about cats with the French people?
14:47You know we say, oh, you can do that with your hands behind your back.
14:50Or you can do that with your eyes closed.
14:52The French say, you can do that with your fingers in your nose.
14:55But I love it, don't you?
14:57It's just extraordinary.
14:58And it's very creative and doesn't make too much sense.
15:00What about the Germans?
15:01How do they get on?
15:02Oh, they've got a few.
15:03There's something that's similar, actually, to...
15:05You know when you think of something after the moment has passed?
15:08Yeah.
15:08What would you call that?
15:10I'd call it a rêve d'escalier.
15:12Yes, escalier, the French thing.
15:13Esprit d'escalier.
15:14The Germans have the same word.
15:16They call it treppenwitz.
15:18Treppenwitz, which means it's just something you think of on the stairs on the way out.
15:23Yeah, yeah.
15:23Or something like that.
15:25But I don't know where these come from.
15:26Was there a Russian one you had as a...
15:28Yeah.
15:29If you don't like something in English, you might say, each to their own.
15:31But in Russian, they say,
15:35which means in taste and colour there are no comrades.
15:38Thank you for that.
15:39I think it proves that we're the sanest of the law.
15:42There we are.
15:43All right.
15:46So, thanks, Rory.
15:4850 plays 7.
15:49And, James, it's your letters game.
15:51James.
15:53Please, could I have a consonant, Rachel?
15:55Thank you, James.
15:56R.
15:58Consonant.
15:59L.
16:00Consonant.
16:02T.
16:04Consonant.
16:04B.
16:08Vowel.
16:10I.
16:11And another.
16:13A.
16:14And another.
16:16E.
16:19And another.
16:21O.
16:22And a final consonant, please.
16:28Final C.
16:30Stand by.
16:31B.
16:32B.
16:32B.
16:33B.
16:34B.
16:36B.
16:38B.
16:38B.
16:39B.
16:40B.
16:41B.
16:41B.
16:53B.
16:55B.
16:55B.
16:55B.
16:56B.
16:57B.
16:59B.
16:59B.
17:00B.
17:01B.
17:01yes James yeah I'll try and eight Rob just a six and Rob sixes beta beta and
17:13yes James blow to you no one of the few that's not there I'm afraid James sorry
17:22what about Rory what do you reckon how do you like cabriolet I love it but I
17:27love it convertible yeah
17:3650 plays 13 Rob your letters game a consonant please thank you Rob D and
17:44another F and a third please M a vowel I a vowel please a a consonant
17:55R a consonant G a vowel you and a final vowel please a final I stand by
18:15so
18:41Rob just a five and James
18:47seven Rob maids maids and Maroudis come along James Maroudis yes you have to go to Guyana this time
19:00James of St Texas all the way around the world in Guyana it's any of several large tree dwelling birds
19:05that
19:05resemble pheasants
19:08Maroudis
19:14well well now what of the corner Rory and Susie
19:17well the French idiom for that is chapel
19:20that's in like we take our hat off yeah I got as far as radius yes and I got as
19:25far as guards
19:26both of those are six six so well done well done for the Maroudis 57 plays 13 and James James
19:35your numbers game
19:36four large again please don't need to ask anymore thank you James four from the top and these two little
19:43ones are six and three and the large one 75 50 100 and 25 and the target 866
19:54866
19:555
19:556
19:55866
19:557
20:22866
20:23866
20:23866
20:23866
20:23866
20:27Well, James?
20:28864, not written down.
20:30864. Rob?
20:32Nothing, I'm afraid.
20:34Too far, let's go with James. Yes, James?
20:3875 divided by 25 is 3.
20:4175 over 25, 3.
20:43Add to the other 3.
20:456.
20:47100 plus 50 minus 6.
20:516. 100 plus 50 minus 6, 144.
20:55Hopefully, if you multiply that by 6, it should be 864.
21:00It is indeed. 864, 2 below. Well done.
21:03Well done.
21:05Is it possible to crack this one?
21:07I got 2 the other way.
21:08It's possible to get 1 away, but this one was impossible,
21:11so 7 points is the best.
21:12So, well done, James.
21:13Excellent. 6-4 plays 13 as we turn to our second tea time teaser,
21:18which is C's spell.
21:21And the clue.
21:22In the state of Washington, she couldn't get any rest at all.
21:26In the state of Washington, she couldn't get any rest at all.
21:44Welcome back.
21:46Welcome back.
21:46I left with the clue.
21:47In the state of Washington, she couldn't get any rest at all.
21:51The answer to that, of course, is sleepless.
21:55Sleepless in Seattle.
21:56There we go. 64 to 13.
21:59Rob, your letters game.
22:02A consonant, please, Rachel.
22:04Thank you, Rob.
22:05N.
22:05And another.
22:08R.
22:09And another, please.
22:11W.
22:12A vowel.
22:13A.
22:14Another vowel.
22:16E.
22:17A consonant.
22:19K.
22:20A consonant.
22:23S.
22:24A vowel.
22:26O.
22:28And a final consonant, please.
22:32And the last one.
22:33M.
22:36Countdown.
23:08Yes, Rob?
23:09Bit of a rude seven.
23:11And James?
23:12Yeah, I've got a certain seven as well.
23:14Have you, by Jove?
23:16And what's Rob's seven, I wonder?
23:19B****s.
23:20And yes?
23:21I also have b****s.
23:23You do?
23:25I would have preferred Swanker.
23:28Swanker, thank you very much indeed, Rory.
23:30Susie, sweep all this away from us.
23:33We have workmen or workmen.
23:35Yeah, well done.
23:37Well done, thank you.
23:38Thank you, gentlemen.
23:3971 plays 20 now.
23:41James, your letters game.
23:43Please could I have a consonant?
23:45Thank you, James.
23:47T.
23:48And another?
23:50B.
23:51And another?
23:53T.
23:55Erm, and another?
23:59F.
24:01Erm, vowel, please.
24:04E.
24:05Erm, and another?
24:07And another?
24:07I.
24:09And another?
24:11A.
24:13Er, consonant?
24:15W.
24:18Erm, and a final consonant, please.
24:22Final S.
24:24Stand by.
24:25F.
24:26Here you are.
24:27T.
24:27T.
24:28Thanks, man.
24:28T.
24:28T.
24:28T.
24:28T.
24:29T.
24:29T.
24:30T.
24:33T.
24:55Well, James?
24:56Seven.
24:57Rob?
24:58Just a five.
25:00And your five, Rob, is?
25:01Weights.
25:03James?
25:04Fatties.
25:07Any advance on that, I wonder?
25:09Susie?
25:10Rory?
25:12Batties.
25:14Batties.
25:14Yes.
25:15Bottoms.
25:16But that was it.
25:17Sevens for us, too.
25:21Batties.
25:22Yeah.
25:2378 to 20.
25:24Now then, Susie.
25:25Susie, I know that you've been slaving away on the particularly perfect dish for us today.
25:29Your origins of words.
25:32I'm going to try and answer an email from Bill Lord, who asks why we talk about going
25:36on a whistle stop tour, if we're doing something very quickly, if we're touring a place very
25:41quickly.
25:42We have to go back to the slang of 1930s America for this one, when a whistle stop was a
25:48really
25:48small or remote town, which trains would always pass straight through unless prompted to stop by a special
25:55whistle that was given by the conductor.
25:58And places like these often featured on the campaign trails of U.S. presidential candidates.
26:04They'd stop briefly before moving on to the next.
26:08So there's a record in the Oxford English Dictionary from the New York Times in 1948.
26:13President Truman told the railroad station crowd here tonight that before this campaign
26:18is over, I expect to visit every whistle stop in the United States.
26:24So that's that one.
26:25It kind of then was nudged into English to mean anything that's kind of fleeting and superficial
26:30and very, very fast.
26:31But it got me thinking about another word that's taken from U.S. railroad history.
26:35And that's the insult jerk.
26:38Very, very American, if you call someone a jerk.
26:40But we all do it sometimes.
26:42That's a shortening of jerk water.
26:45And a jerk water town, it goes back to the early days of railroads, when the small boilers
26:50of the locomotives that were used in those days, they needed frequent refilling.
26:55And water tanks were few and far between.
26:57So what would happen is that the train crew would have a bucket that was on a sort of leather
27:02lead, if you like, a leather leash, and they would jerk water from the streams whenever
27:08they could in order to refill these steam engines, essentially.
27:13And because these were often kind of small, slightly insignificant places where they would
27:18do this, you know, they'd stop off at any available town, those became known as jerk
27:22water towns.
27:23So slightly inferior, there was a bit of a kind of hick feel to it.
27:26And because of that derogatory sense, jerk, short for jerk water, crept in to describe
27:32a person that you didn't think very much of at all.
27:34That's amazing, isn't it?
27:36Well, clever thing.
27:41You are amazing.
27:43That's excellent.
27:44Now, Rob, it's your letters game.
27:46A consonant, please, Rachel.
27:47Thank you, Rob.
27:49P.
27:49And another one.
27:51N.
27:52And another.
27:54R.
27:55And a vowel.
27:56E.
27:57And a vowel.
27:58O.
27:59A consonant.
28:01C.
28:02A consonant.
28:04D.
28:06A vowel.
28:08U.
28:10And a consonant, please.
28:12And lastly, P.
28:14Stand by.
28:15A consonant.
28:16A remembrance.
28:32dial Kobe.
28:34A consonant.
28:34A consonant.
28:34A consonant.
28:35A generic.
28:35A sovereignty.
28:35A workshop.
28:36A jeg.
28:43A gift.
28:46Yes, Rob?
28:47A seven.
28:48A seven.
28:48And James?
28:49Try nine.
28:51Oh, you're a gambler, you.
28:53Rob?
28:53Er, produce.
28:55And James?
28:57Uncropped.
28:58A picture can be uncropped.
29:00Well done, James.
29:01That's brilliant.
29:01Well done.
29:02Well done.
29:07Excellent.
29:08Excellent.
29:09Now, Rory and Susie.
29:10Rory?
29:11Couldn't top uncropped, I don't think.
29:13No.
29:14No.
29:15That's it.
29:15That was ours, otherwise Pouncer was there for seven.
29:17An uncropped picture, as you say.
29:19So, 96 to 20, with a little time left in the tank here.
29:24James, your letters game.
29:26Please could have a consonant, Rachel.
29:28Thank you, James.
29:29N.
29:31And another.
29:32S.
29:34And another.
29:36T.
29:37And another.
29:39R.
29:41A vowel, please.
29:43O.
29:43And another.
29:45And another.
29:46And another.
29:47I.
29:49And another.
29:52U.
29:56And a final consonant, please.
30:01Final J.
30:03And it's countdown.
30:05Oh,
30:18all.
30:18Oh,
30:33and another.
30:35What do you think James? Eight. An eight. Rob? Seven. And your seven? Rations. Rations. Thanks Rob. James? Rain outs.
30:47Rain outs, yes. Events cancelled through rain. Very good. Wow, that's very good.
30:54No. Rory, what do you reckon? We went for the more obvious, but it's there. Janitors. Janitors has got a
31:00very interesting story, isn't it? Oh, it's got a nice story. It goes back to the Roman god Janus, who's
31:06got two heads, one in the front, one in the back. January is named after him as well, because you
31:10look back and you look forward. But yes, he's the god of gateways and doorways as well.
31:15That's a jam. Keeping an eye out, yeah. Thank you. 104 plays 20. Rob, your numbers game now. Could I
31:25have two large and four small, please? You can indeed, thank you, Rob. Two from the top four, little to
31:29finish today. And these final numbers are three, four, ten, six, one hundred and seventy-five, and the target, nine
31:41hundred and twenty-one.
31:42Nine to one.
32:14Yes, Rob?
32:159-one-one-four.
32:17Nine-one-four, and James?
32:19Nine-two-one.
32:20Yeah. Yes, James?
32:22One hundred multiplied by ten is a thousand.
32:25One thousand.
32:27And seventy-five plus four is seventy-nine.
32:29Yeah.
32:30And take it away.
32:31Well done. Nine-two-one.
32:33All right, well done.
32:36OK, and into the final round, into the final round, Rob and James, fingers on buzzers. Let's roll today's Countdown
32:44Conundrum.
32:50Rob, blameless, blameless, says Rob, with James nodding his head. Let's see whether you're right.
32:59Excellent. Well done. Well done.
33:07Well done, Rob. I'll come back to you in a second. Well, sir, that'll be six. That'll be six in
33:13a row. Well done. Rob, you beat him to a conundrum.
33:17I did. That is praise indeed, because, you know, you scored thirty, that's OK. More than some, but he always
33:23gets the conundrum in about two seconds, and you beat him.
33:27Every count.
33:28Brilliant. Thank you.
33:29That makes it worthwhile, doesn't it? It does, yeah.
33:31Thank you so much for coming.
33:32Take this goodie bag back.
33:34I will.
33:34And good luck. Thank you very much. You travel safely.
33:38Cheers.
33:39Ha-ha!
33:41Beaten to a conundrum.
33:43That's splendid. I hope you're not slipping, James.
33:45I hope so, too.
33:47I don't think so. We'll see you tomorrow.
33:50See you tomorrow.
33:51Terrific player. Terrific player. Wow, he'll come back tomorrow for the last time.
33:55Yes, so will it be seven? We never know.
33:59We'll see what happens. We'll see you tomorrow. It's been a real pleasure. And Susie, too, of course.
34:03See you both then.
34:05Rachel.
34:05Yeah. Can't miss living too much. He's broken a century every single time.
34:09I know.
34:09Nice of Rob to get the final word on this one.
34:11That gave me a lot of pleasure. Not as much as it gave Rob.
34:14But I was delighted to see you doing it. Brilliant stuff. We'll see you tomorrow.
34:18See you tomorrow.
34:18Join us then. Same time, same place. You'll be sure of it. A very good afternoon.
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