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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33I wonder whether you've ever come across anybody who tests products or services for a living.
00:38Lots of them, apparently.
00:39For instance, how about earning your living, Rachel, as a pizza taster?
00:45That's what they do. They get paid so much for a pizza and so forth.
00:49What about a plane seat tester? That's fun.
00:51They travel all around the world commenting on what the seats are like and so forth.
00:55As long as you've got to enjoy the bit that you've got to rather than just sitting on the airplane
00:58all the time
00:59and having airplane food and all the rest of it.
01:02But they're testing food service, you know, all the rest of it.
01:05But I remember when I was a kid, Daniel Wiltshire, there's a place that we were all terrified of.
01:10We'd drive past it very quickly, which was Porton Down Biological Warfare Centre.
01:15That's what we called it.
01:16But now, apparently, they do all sorts of things.
01:19Presumably not inventing biological warfare kits, but actually protecting against them.
01:23But now, of course, it's all sorts of things.
01:25It's the Chemical, Biological, Radiology and Nuclear Research Centre.
01:30And we knew a chap named Stropter there.
01:33We called him Dr Death, actually.
01:35And they used to welcome lots of people who would be paid to go and get tested on against things
01:43like the common cold, they said.
01:45But no, it was quite a big deal, actually, in those days.
01:47You'd book in for a fortnight and they'd shoot you full of stuff and see how you reacted.
01:52Did you ever have a go?
01:53I didn't, actually.
01:54I'll stick with pizzas, I think, basically.
01:57Pizzas, yeah.
01:58Anyway, there we are.
01:59There we are.
02:00So, if all the things in the whole world, what would you like to test for a living?
02:05I think testing holidays and hotels wouldn't be too shabby, would it?
02:09It'd be all right.
02:09Preferably somewhere hot and sunny with lots of wildlife and cocktails to also have to try.
02:16Perfect.
02:17You'd need to do that.
02:18Of course you would.
02:19Now, Rachel, we've got a five-time winner on our hands again, Chris Thorne from Chelmsford.
02:25You left it quite late yesterday, I think, but you came through.
02:28You came through very strongly.
02:30And you're joined by Sam.
02:32Sam Prowse from Rushton, Northampton show, media student, and a big collector of vinyl records.
02:39You've got all the Beatles ones, you're telling me.
02:40Yeah, every single one.
02:42Fantastic.
02:42All their classic albums.
02:44That's quite a valuable collection you've got there.
02:48Yeah.
02:48Well, good luck today.
02:51Have fun.
02:52Big round of applause for Sam and Chris.
02:59And sitting next to the wonderful Susie, we have the wonderful sports broadcaster, John
03:05Inverdale.
03:06Welcome back, John.
03:12Now, Chris, you're an old hand at this.
03:14It's a letters game.
03:15Afternoon, Rachel.
03:16Afternoon, Chris.
03:17Start with a consonant, please.
03:18Start today with P.
03:19And another.
03:22S.
03:23And one more.
03:25T.
03:26A vowel.
03:28I.
03:29And another.
03:30A.
03:32And another.
03:33E.
03:34And a consonant.
03:36H.
03:38And a consonant.
03:40V.
03:42And a final consonant, please.
03:45And a final T.
03:47Done by.
03:48And a consonant.
04:06And a consonant.
04:07And a consonant.
04:07And a consonant.
04:07And a consonant.
04:08And a consonant.
04:09And a consonant.
04:12And a consonant.
04:18Yes, Chris?
04:19Seven.
04:20Seven, Sam?
04:21Yep, seven.
04:22Chris?
04:23Patties.
04:24And?
04:24Yep, same one.
04:26Any more patties, John?
04:28Yeah, I was just wondering on the grounds of taste if we're allowed to say, are we allowed
04:31to say ****?
04:33No.
04:35It's a real word.
04:36It's a real word.
04:37Yeah.
04:38It's in the dictionary.
04:38You could have had that.
04:39Yes, but you're not allowed.
04:41No, you are.
04:42It's in the dictionary.
04:42It's in the dictionary, therefore you're allowed it.
04:44And atheist.
04:46And atheist.
04:47Yes.
04:48Thank you very much.
04:49Susie?
04:49Leave it there.
04:52All right.
04:53Seven apiece.
04:54Now, Sam, your letters again.
04:56Hello, Rachel.
04:57Hi, Sam.
04:58Can I have a consonant, please?
05:00Start with S.
05:01And a vowel, please.
05:04A.
05:04And another vowel.
05:07E.
05:08And again.
05:10I.
05:11A consonant, please.
05:13R.
05:14Another one.
05:15L.
05:16And another.
05:17T.
05:19One more.
05:21D.
05:22And a vowel, please.
05:23And the last one.
05:24E.
05:26Countdown.
05:29We'll be right off the ingredients.
05:31They'll be right back.
05:33And then we'll be right next.
05:52See you next time.
05:57Yes, Sam?
05:58Nine.
06:00And Chris?
06:02Mm, yeah, good one.
06:03Eight.
06:04Your eight?
06:05It's lardiest.
06:06Sam?
06:07Laterised.
06:11It's there, it's a geological term,
06:13and it means converted into laterite,
06:16which is a reddish clay material.
06:18Very, very good.
06:19Well done, Sam.
06:20APPLAUSE
06:24Well done, Sam.
06:25That's a very appreciative audience, I can tell you.
06:2725 now to Chris's seven.
06:30Chris, it's your numbers game.
06:32One large five small, please.
06:34Thank you, Chris, sticking with the usual tactics.
06:36One big five little to kick us off,
06:38and the first numbers game is four, five, three, six.
06:44Another four, and a large one, 25.
06:47And your target, 297.
06:49Two nine seven.
06:51Two five.
06:53One one.
06:54Two five.
07:12Food Movement.
07:18Five.
07:19They're just clingy.
07:21now Chris yeah 297 297 Sam 297 Chris 4 times 3 is 12 yep times 25 300 and then
07:325 plus 4 minus 6 is 3 it is indeed well done and Sam I did 25 times 4 is
07:40100 100
07:41minus 5 plus 4 is 99 yep times 3 lovely well done 297
07:47so Sam on 35 Chris on 17 has returned to our first tea time teaser which is burst wart and
08:00the glue
08:00the spoiled child behaved terribly over a sausage the spoiled child behaved terribly over a sausage
08:23welcome back I left with the clue the spoiled child behaved terribly over a sausage and the
08:28answer to that is bratwurst bratwurst according to uh to Susie 35 17 Sam that was a brilliant nine
08:39your letters game a vowel please Rachel thank you Sam you and another vowel oh and a third you and
08:50the
08:51consonant please n and the second s and a third l and fourth w one more please ah and a
09:04vowel please
09:05and the last one another oh countdown
09:08so
09:39wow Sam just five Chris uh risk of six Sam looms no I wonder if you can unsour something um
09:50that's a gamble
09:51it is a gamble unsoured is there but not unsour so I'm sorry Chris that's bad luck worth a shot
09:59yeah it
09:59was yeah we came up with sworn but five seemed to be maximum that was a good gamble there it
10:04was
10:04worth it was worth a punt that but it didn't quite come off right sworn 40 plays 17 and Chris
10:10your letters
10:11game constant please thank you Chris t and another l and another j and another t uh vowel please you
10:26and another t uh one more o and a consonant d and a final constant please and a final n
10:42countdown
10:43countdown
10:44countdown
10:44countdown
10:45countdown
10:46countdown
10:47countdown
10:48countdown
10:49countdown
10:49countdown
10:50countdown
11:02countdown
11:05countdown
11:16Chris, even dodgy a seven.
11:18Sam?
11:18I'll stick with a safe six, then.
11:21And that six?
11:21Unload.
11:23Unload and?
11:24Can everything as an outland?
11:26There is such a thing as an outland, even in the singular, yes.
11:29Often in the plural, but it means remote or distant territory.
11:33Yeah, well done.
11:38Well done.
11:3921, 24 to 40, but any advances, John?
11:44No, actually, I saw Jutland in there, which obviously you can't have,
11:47because that's a capital J as a place, but then suddenly I saw outland,
11:51and I wasn't sure it was a word either, but it is.
11:54That's it.
11:55Anything else, Susie?
11:55No, nothing better than a seven.
11:58Now, Sam's numbers.
12:00Sam?
12:00Just one from the top, please, Rachel.
12:02Thank you, Sam.
12:03One large and five little ones.
12:05And for the second time today, the five smalls are six, two, two, one, seven,
12:12and the big one, 50.
12:14And your target, 596.
12:17Five, nine, six.
12:19Five, nine, six.
12:19Five, nine, six.
12:49Now Sam.
12:50Yep, 5, 9, 6.
12:52Chris?
12:525, 9, 6.
12:53Sam?
12:5450 times 2 times 6.
12:5650 times 2 times 6, 600.
12:58My 7.
13:00Is 5, 9, 3.
13:01And add the 1 and the 2.
13:03The other 2, perfect.
13:04And same way?
13:05Same way.
13:06Yep.
13:12So, 50 to 34, as we turn to John.
13:16Yes.
13:16Soccer and Russia.
13:17Russia.
13:17Yeah, we're continuing the Russian theme because of the Football World Cup in Russia.
13:21One thing we haven't really spoken about is where it's actually taking place.
13:23And it's actually not really taking place across the whole of Russia at all.
13:27It's just in a sort of condensed bit on the left, if you like, as you look at the map
13:31in the west.
13:32And some of the matches are taking place in cities that, you know, probably most people watching really almost never
13:36heard of,
13:37like Kaliningrad, Kazan, Samara, Saransk, Nizhny Novgorod and Ekaterinburg.
13:44There are obviously games in Moscow and St. Petersburg as well.
13:46But, you know, it's quite a disparate place.
13:49But it's interesting that Ekaterinburg, I was going to talk about mostly, because two or three of those cities were
13:53closed cities in the Soviet era.
13:55Actually, the Russians almost didn't know they existed at all.
13:57They actually weren't on maps.
13:59And yet, suddenly now, there are obviously, you know, more than a million people living in these places.
14:03And it's almost like they've appeared from nowhere when actually they've been there the whole time.
14:07And Ekaterinburg is the most easterly city where a match is taking place.
14:11But actually, it's still 8,000 kilometres from Vladivostok, you know, which would take you 90 hours by car to
14:19get there.
14:19So it makes you realise there's this huge swathe of Russia where nothing is happening at all.
14:23But that's because they didn't want the teams to have them travel too far.
14:25But I looked up a bits and bobs about Ekaterinburg because it's an extraordinary place.
14:30I mean, it's so isolated.
14:31It has its own time zone.
14:33And it was named after the emperor's wife in the 18th century.
14:37And it's known as the sort of the gateway to Siberia.
14:40But here we are in 2018.
14:42And its most famous or probably most infamous claim to fame is that a century ago, so 100 years ago,
14:48the Tsar and his family were executed in that city after, you know, the Russian Revolution.
14:54It's the home of Boris Yeltsin.
14:56But the one thing that when I looked at it, I thought, really, it's funny.
14:58You know, Russia's a funny old place, but there are some funny little things that sort of set it apart.
15:02Have a guess.
15:03There's a statue, one of the landmark things, when you all go on your summer holidays to Ekaterinburg,
15:09one of the landmark things you have to see is a statue to a very famous Western rock star.
15:15Who do you think that was?
15:16Mick Jagger.
15:17Mick Jagger.
15:18Right initials.
15:19Michael Jackson.
15:19Michael Jackson.
15:21Absolutely.
15:21And that's because two years, started for 10, two years after the Soviet Union finished,
15:27Michael Jackson, in a rather random decision, went to play a concert there.
15:32But because there was so much poverty in that part of Russia at that time,
15:36barely anybody had enough money to buy tickets for it.
15:39So anyway, Jackson was there prepared to play, but nobody, basically, the stadium was empty.
15:45So he said, I'm not going on stage unless you open the gates and let people come in for free.
15:50So the population all just sort of came in.
15:52Yeah.
15:53And as a consequence of that, and as appreciation for the sort of contribution he made to re-establishing links
15:59with the outside world,
16:00there's this statue to Michael Jackson in Ekaterinburg.
16:03Not a lot of people know that.
16:04Anyway, barely mentioned football during my little sort of sojourn here,
16:07so I thought that would be, it would be wrong of us not to do that.
16:10So on Monday, we'll come back and just talk about, actually,
16:14some stories from World Cups in days gone by, and why England are going to win it.
16:18Look forward to that.
16:19All right, well done.
16:25Thank you, John.
16:26Now, Chris, your letters again.
16:28Carson, please.
16:29Thank you, Chris.
16:30P.
16:31And another.
16:34G.
16:34And another.
16:37P.
16:38Vowel.
16:40U.
16:41And another.
16:43E.
16:44And another.
16:46I.
16:47Consonant.
16:49G.
16:51And another.
16:53C.
16:55And a final consonant, please.
16:59And a final F.
17:01Stand by.
17:02And a final consonant.
17:04And a final consonant.
17:33Chris?
17:34Six.
17:35Sam?
17:36Um, five, I think.
17:39Your five?
17:40Puce.
17:41Chris?
17:42Be it richly.
17:42Guppy?
17:43Um, yes, guppy is not as the fish, which is with a Y,
17:48but you have to be careful with this one.
17:50A gay yuppie is the idea.
17:54Slightly strange one, but it's in the dictionary.
17:56How are you spelling puce?
17:58Um, P-U-I-C.
18:00If you turn puce, it's just P-U-C-E, unfortunately.
18:03Sorry.
18:04Never mind.
18:04Mm.
18:05And John?
18:07No.
18:08I have nothing to contribute at all.
18:10All right.
18:11Susie, in the gap?
18:11No, nothing better at all, I'm afraid.
18:13Ten point difference.
18:14Now, 40 to 50.
18:15Sam still in the lead.
18:17Sam, off we go.
18:18Letters game.
18:19Val, please, Rachel.
18:20Thank you, Sam.
18:21O.
18:22And a second.
18:24E.
18:25And a third.
18:27A.
18:27A consonant, please.
18:29L.
18:30Another one.
18:32R.
18:33And another.
18:35T.
18:36And another.
18:38D.
18:39And another.
18:41Z.
18:43And a vowel, please.
18:44And lastly, I.
18:46Stand by.
18:48And a vowel, please.
18:52And a vowel, please.
18:54And a vowel, please.
18:59And a vowel, please.
19:02And a vowel, please.
19:03And a vowel, please.
19:03And a vowel, please.
19:04And a vowel, please.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:06And a vowel, please.
19:07And a vowel, please.
19:08And a vowel, please.
19:10And a vowel, please.
19:10And a vowel, please.
19:18Well, Sam?
19:19Seven.
19:20And Chris?
19:21Seven.
19:21Seven.
19:22Sam?
19:23Leotard.
19:24And?
19:25Trailed.
19:26And trailed.
19:27Yeah.
19:27Yes.
19:28Good.
19:28Anything to add?
19:29Yeah, we've got a dilator for seven, but we've got an eight, actually.
19:32We've got an idolater.
19:34Oh, dear.
19:35An idolater.
19:40Susie, anything else?
19:41No.
19:42Idolat is excellent for eight, but you like leotards always.
19:47Well, just because it's a countdown word.
19:49So, ten points, 57 to 47.
19:52Chris, your numbers game now, please.
19:54Six more, please, Rachel.
19:55Thank you, Chris.
19:56Six little ones and your chance to find parity.
19:59These six little ones are nine, four, ten, another four, one, and eight.
20:07And your target, 997.
20:10Nine, nine, seven.
20:29Nine, nine, nine, four.
20:43Nine, nine, four.
20:45Nine, nine, four.
20:46Nine, nine, four not written down.
20:48So, Sam, let's try yours.
20:504 minus 1 plus 8.
20:524 minus 1.
20:54Plus 8.
20:55Plus 8, 11.
20:57Times 10 times 9.
20:58Times 10 times 9, 990.
21:01And add the 4.
21:02And add the other 4.
21:03Yep, 994.
21:04Add Chris, same way.
21:05Sorry.
21:08It's back to Rachel.
21:10Rachel, 997?
21:12Well, I got to 996, but this one's impossible.
21:15So, well done, guys.
21:16It's 64 plays, 54.
21:19And we have our second tea-time teaser for you.
21:21It's a raised cuts.
21:22And the clue, very regular in the garden, it must be all the prunes.
21:28Very regular in the garden, it must be all the prunes.
21:47Welcome back.
21:48I left you with a clue.
21:49Very regular in the garden, it must be all the prunes.
21:53And the answer to that is secateurs.
21:56Snip, snip.
21:57Secateurs.
21:58So, 64 to 54.
22:00Sam in the lead.
22:02Sam, letters game.
22:04A vowel, please, Rachel.
22:05Thank you, Sam.
22:06E.
22:07Another one.
22:09O.
22:10And a third, please.
22:11E.
22:12A consonant.
22:14M.
22:15A second.
22:16T.
22:17And a third.
22:19S.
22:20And a fourth.
22:21M.
22:22And a fifth.
22:24R.
22:25And a vowel, please.
22:26And the last one, you.
22:29Countdown.
22:30T.
22:32T.
22:32T.
22:33T.
22:33T.
22:34T.
23:02MUSIC CONTINUES
23:05Er, seven.
23:06Now, Sam.
23:07Strum.
23:08Er, meteors?
23:09Yes, very nice.
23:10And John?
23:11Yeah, meteors we had and remotes.
23:13Seven was as good as we could do, I think.
23:14Well done.
23:15Well done.
23:17Gosh.
23:18It's getting close now.
23:1964 to 61.
23:20Only three points in it, Chris, as we go to your letters game.
23:24Cost of peace.
23:25Thank you, Chris.
23:26D.
23:27Er, another.
23:29M.
23:30Er, one more.
23:32B.
23:33Er, vowel.
23:35I.
23:37And another.
23:38O.
23:39And one more.
23:41E.
23:43Er, consonant.
23:44N.
23:46And another.
23:48R.
23:50And a final consonant, please.
23:52And a final F.
23:54And the clock starts now.
24:27chris uh eight and eight and sam eight chris bromides and sam embroid
24:38um not there i'm afraid i have to be embroiders i'm sorry sam oh bad luck i was heading towards
24:43embroiders i suppose yeah and john we had we had um minders as a seven and bromides as an eight
24:50bromides meaning bromides are just different things sedatives compounds of bromine or they
24:54can be trite statements intended to soothe or placate yeah exactly
25:02so chris has just overhauled overhauled sam by um 5.69 to 64 as we turn to uh susie
25:11your origins of words today uh well we had a nice email in from alec dodd um from the beautifully
25:17named dervishhire town of ambergate um and he says what are the origins of phrases meaning to look at
25:23um especially take a butcher's at a quick gander at something a shifty uh etc and it's a nice question
25:30so i was going to have a quick whiz around um verbs and expressions meaning to have a look
25:34uh we have lots of them in english as well as the ones that um alec mentions we have a
25:38squeeze a look
25:39see um a double o a bow peep etc but i'll start with gander um this goes back to the
25:45late 1800s and
25:47it sounds like rhyming slang but it's not the image is simply of the resemblance between an inquisitive
25:51person and a goose stretching out its neck to take a look at something it's the same idea as craning
25:57our necks the idea again goes back to the bird to the crane uh butchers is a bit of nice
26:03rhyming
26:03slang having a butcher's butcher's hook look um in australia and new zealand where rhyming slang is
26:08actually even more popular than it is here going butchers means something very different that's rhyming
26:13slang for being angry um being crook um so butcher's hook crook um shifty began in the british military
26:21uh was brought back um from military encounters abroad it's from the arabic sufti simply have you
26:27seen and in the same way having a deco was harvested by the british army during the governance of india
26:32and it's from the hindi again meaning simply to look so they are just words that we've borrowed from
26:37um other continents but while we're looking at uh verbs and expressions meaning to look i thought i'd
26:43just give you a couple of idioms one is to keep your eyes peeled which is always used to make
26:48me um
26:48shiver when i was little um that is pretty obvious really it's just to take the covers off your eyes
26:53and
26:54really have a good look for something um but peel actually goes back to pill and pillage it was a
27:00viking
27:00word meaning to plunder and then the idea of stripping something came along a little bit later
27:05and finally to look a gift horse in its mouth the idea is that if you were given a horse
27:10by a king
27:11or a royal um as a present or as a gift never ever look at its mouth because if you
27:16look in the teeth
27:17you'll be able to see how old it is that would be considered incredibly rude because a horse's teeth
27:21change shape become a little bit more protruding as they get old they get literally long in the tooth
27:26which is where that comes from as well well done very good very good thank you so 64 to 69
27:39chris just
27:40in the lead and we turn to you sam good luck sam let us go uh a vowel please rachel
27:45thank you sam o
27:47and second a and another i and the consonant please q and a better consonant please r and the third
28:00w and fourth t and a fifth r and a vowel please and lastly e and the clock starts now
28:16so
28:28so
28:29so
28:29so
28:44What do you think, Sam?
28:46I'll stick with a six.
28:48A six and?
28:49I'll try a seven.
28:50Sam?
28:50A waiter.
28:52Waiter and?
28:52Can it be waterier?
28:54You can.
28:55Sorry, Sam.
28:56Bad luck.
28:58Yeah.
28:58Well, now then, John.
29:00Does waterier mean as in lots of warts?
29:02Yes, unfortunately.
29:03And a word I wrote down was warrit.
29:06I don't know if it exists.
29:07W-W-O-R-R-I-T.
29:10Is that a word?
29:10Yes.
29:11It's a very old version of worry, similarly.
29:14To warrit is the same idea as fretting.
29:16Fretting over something is to warrit.
29:18Anything else?
29:19No.
29:20Waterier's excellent.
29:20All right.
29:21So, Chris, final letters came for you.
29:24Constance, please.
29:25Thank you, Chris.
29:27N.
29:27N lover?
29:29B.
29:30And another?
29:32S.
29:34One more.
29:36H.
29:37Vowel?
29:39A.
29:41And another?
29:42U.
29:44And another?
29:46E.
29:48Consonant.
29:50N.
29:52And try a final consonant, please.
29:55And a final V.
29:57Stand by.
29:58By the time,-
30:00B.
30:06All right.
30:28Um, Chris?
30:31Um, try a seven.
30:33Seven?
30:34I'll try a six.
30:36And your six?
30:37Shaven.
30:38Shaven.
30:39And?
30:40Can you unshave?
30:42Oh, unshave.
30:44You can't unshave.
30:46You can be unshaved.
30:47I'm shaven.
30:48You see, in the middle there, there was actually an eight-letter word.
30:53Wow.
30:54Look at you, Sam.
30:56You're in the game.
30:57You're in the game.
30:58Well done.
30:59Anything else, chaps?
31:01No, no, that's enough.
31:03Oh, Chris over there having a minor heart attack.
31:05There we go.
31:06So it's 70 to 76 as we go into the final numbers game.
31:11Now then, Sam.
31:11I think I'll just play safe with one large, Chris Rachel.
31:14See how safe it proves to be.
31:16Thank you, Sam.
31:16One large, five little.
31:19Scary times.
31:20The final one of the week is two, three, six, five, nine, and 100.
31:27And your target, 774.
31:30Seven, seven, four.
31:32OK.
31:33The final one.
31:43Oh.
31:46The final one.
31:58There you go.
32:00There you go.
32:03Yes, Sam?
32:04776.
32:06Two away, Chris?
32:07Same. 776.
32:08Both of you. All right. Sam?
32:106 plus 2.
32:116 plus 2 is 8.
32:13100 minus 3.
32:15Yep, 97.
32:16And times them together.
32:17And that gets you two away.
32:18And Chris too. Just check that out, Sam.
32:21Yeah, it's fine.
32:22Let's go to the expo.
32:23Rachel, how easy is that?
32:24Well, they're adding to the drama, but you could have said 5 plus 6 plus 3 is 14.
32:31100 minus 14, 86.
32:34And times it by 9.
32:35There we are.
32:40Very good.
32:42So, we do have a situation here.
32:46It could go either way.
32:48Fingers on buzzers, please, gentlemen.
32:49Let's reveal today's countdown, crucial countdown, conundrum.
32:57Oh, so fast, Chris.
32:59How is it?
33:01Outwardly.
33:02Outwardly?
33:04Outwardly.
33:05Oh.
33:16That's your quickest conundrum, I think.
33:18I needed it as well.
33:18Very, very, very, yeah.
33:20You did.
33:21You did.
33:21He gave you a hell of a run for your money, actually.
33:23Sam, well done.
33:25Well played.
33:26That 9 shook him to his absolute feet.
33:30He deserves to do well.
33:31People fight back.
33:32It was great.
33:33It was brilliant.
33:33Yeah.
33:34Thanks for coming back to your media studies with a goodie bag and our congratulations.
33:39Fantastic.
33:41That was good.
33:42Well played.
33:43Thank you very much.
33:44You had, you were a stoic.
33:46You had guts there.
33:47Fantastic.
33:47Six wins.
33:48And we'll see you on Monday.
33:50Yes.
33:50Well done.
33:51I really thought that young Sam was going to take him away, but he fought back.
33:56Went to penalties.
33:57Went to penalties.
33:59See you on Monday?
34:00Yep.
34:00Brilliant stuff.
34:01And Susie too, of course.
34:02Have a good weekend.
34:02Yeah.
34:02That was a fast conundrum.
34:04I think that's where it pays to be a champion, having done it already.
34:06First night jitters for Sam.
34:08Yeah.
34:08A very good contest.
34:09Best of the series so far.
34:10I agree.
34:11I think so too.
34:12See you on Monday.
34:12See you then.
34:13Brilliant stuff.
34:14Join us then.
34:15Same time, same place.
34:16On Monday, you'll be sure of it.
34:17A very good afternoon.
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