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00:30Hello, everybody. It is Monday, August the 19th.
00:33Welcome to Countdown and another five days,
00:36another five chances to hand out teapots galore.
00:39And we might just do that because we're well into Series 90 already
00:43and only one OctoChamp to show for it.
00:46Let's see what happens today and for the rest of this week.
00:49Hi, Rachel. Hi, Cole.
00:51Now, it's International...
00:53Wait for it.
00:55Orangutan Day.
00:56Now, unless I'm mistaken, up until 1995-ish,
01:00they were called orangutans.
01:02How do you say the word?
01:04Orangutan?
01:06You said it perfectly.
01:07Maybe it's a lack of education on my behalf.
01:10But I think it's a bit generational thing.
01:12We'll check with Susie.
01:13Is this day all about learning how to say the word?
01:16Well, of course, the serious side is, of course, numbers declining.
01:19We look at Borneo, Sumatra.
01:22We're down to, I think, it's hard to know, actually, about 50,000, 60,000.
01:26So definitely take a bit of time today to read a bit more about these glorious,
01:31ultra-intelligent creatures, more intelligent than gorillas,
01:34more intelligent than chimpanzees.
01:36But we always talk about how close they are to humans.
01:38So I was having a look at one thing they have that we would love.
01:42Right.
01:42Right?
01:43Their arms are disproportionately long.
01:46You know the way, roughly, fingertip to fingertip is our height.
01:50Theirs aren't.
01:51They go way longer, like 20% longer.
01:53Now, think about it.
01:54You wouldn't have to get off your seat to do the letters.
01:57You could reach the vowel.
01:59So you think I should become a orangutan?
02:01Life would be better with longer arms.
02:03Don't look at me like I'm insane.
02:05Yeah.
02:06I mean, I'd be a bit hairy, though.
02:08You'd have hairier arms?
02:10Yeah, I mean, orangutans are notoriously hairy, aren't they?
02:13I'm not sure I want to commit and become one.
02:16Think of the kitchen.
02:16Should we put the pots up?
02:17Doesn't matter.
02:18I've got orangutan arms.
02:19Is that what?
02:20You're wearing that colour today?
02:21You're just like, a nought to orangutans.
02:23I think I'm losing my mind.
02:24It's only Monday.
02:26Susie Dent, RG of the D.
02:28Orangutan, orangutan.
02:29Yeah, both have been around for ages.
02:32And orangutan started to become orangutan in the late 1700s.
02:37But the dictionary gives both, so it's absolutely fine to add a G at the end.
02:41I think it's probably because it's easier to say orangutan.
02:44We have that separate G.
02:45But originally it was orangutan from Malay, and it means forest person.
02:49OK.
02:50Well, I've no more use for you, so I'll move on by introducing someone who'll be giving us a helping
02:55hand all week.
02:56And a very warm welcome always for anyone who's new to Dixonry Corner.
03:00We welcome the comedian, Ria Lina.
03:05All right.
03:06So, you know what?
03:07You've just solved the problem for me, because I'm going to go on holiday after this.
03:11And I wasn't sure how to put the sunscreen on in the middle of my back.
03:13Right.
03:14Now I know how.
03:15No more asking strangers.
03:17No.
03:17Right.
03:18Which is a little bit weird.
03:19Whack it on your hand.
03:20Right.
03:20Over you go.
03:21Well, no, I was just thinking grow more hair and not need it.
03:25Listen, I say, you've never seen an orangutan with sunburn.
03:28Hmm?
03:29Yes.
03:29The facts speak for themselves.
03:31As does this.
03:32Four wins.
03:33Halfway to being our second octal champ of the series.
03:36Rob Barkas is back.
03:37How are you?
03:38I'm very well, thank you.
03:39Tell me about your two dogs.
03:41There's a reason I ask you this.
03:43OK, I've got one black lab called Tyne, who's a year old.
03:47And I've got a complete Heinz 57 called Lottie, who's nearly 16.
03:51Oh, nearly 16!
03:53Yeah, which is the love of my life.
03:54Oh, wow, what an age to live to.
03:57Wow, which is wonderful.
03:58Well, listen, you're taking on a challenger today from Norwich called Killian Bounden.
04:02How are you doing, young man?
04:03I'm doing well, thank you.
04:04Tell me how many dogs you have.
04:05I have ten dogs.
04:07Ten.
04:07That's a lot of dog food.
04:09That is a lot.
04:10And a lot of licks and a lot of love.
04:12Yes.
04:13And a lot of poop.
04:15Yes.
04:15How have you ended up with ten?
04:17Well, we had two about seven, eight years ago.
04:20And for some reason, my mum thought it was a good idea to buy two separate genders.
04:23And they started to breed and then five or six litres later, we've got ten.
04:27Name them all.
04:28Go.
04:29Oh, gosh, now you're testing me.
04:31Skip, Lulu, Milo, Pepsi, Basil, Floyd, Costa, Kiwi, Sydney and Elvis.
04:39Oh, I love that.
04:41I'm surprised I remembered that, to be fair.
04:42Wow, I love that.
04:44Fantastic.
04:45What a day for the doggies.
04:46We've even got a contestant called Barkas, our champion, which is great.
04:50Well, let's see how we go today.
04:51Good luck to Killian.
04:52Good luck to Rob.
04:55Off you go, Rob.
04:56First letters of the day.
04:57Catherine Rishel, can I have a cotton, please?
04:59You can indeed.
05:00Thank you, Rob.
05:00Start the week with P.
05:02And another.
05:04G.
05:06And a vowel, please.
05:08E.
05:09And again.
05:10A.
05:11And a consonant.
05:13N.
05:14And a vowel.
05:16O.
05:17And a consonant, please.
05:19C.
05:20And another.
05:22L.
05:24And a...
05:27...continent, please.
05:28A final.
05:29T.
05:30At home and in the studio, let's play Countdown.
05:34MUSIC PLAYS
06:02ROM.
06:03Just a six.
06:05A six from you and Killian?
06:06A five.
06:07And a five.
06:07The five is?
06:08Clean.
06:09And the six?
06:10Tangle.
06:11And tangle, as we glance over to the dictionary corner.
06:13Anything above a six in our first round of the week, Ria?
06:18Well, we do have a couple of sevens.
06:21Yeah.
06:22Lactone and congeal.
06:24Now, congeal I get.
06:25Yes.
06:26Lactone.
06:26Can a lactone congeal?
06:28That's the question.
06:28Oh, I'm not sure, actually.
06:30It is an organic compound containing an ester group as part of a ring.
06:35So, scientists will know whether it congeal.
06:37I suspect not.
06:38OK.
06:38Lactone and congeal.
06:40Very good indeed.
06:41That would have been your sevens, but a six-point lead there.
06:44Champion early doors, Killian, in your letters.
06:46Afternoon, Rachel.
06:47Afternoon, Killian.
06:48Can I have a consonant, please?
06:50You can indeed.
06:51R.
06:51Another one of those, please.
06:53Y.
06:54Vowel.
06:56I.
06:58Another vowel, please.
06:59E.
07:01Consonant.
07:02D.
07:04Another consonant.
07:06M.
07:08Vowel.
07:09A.
07:12Consonant.
07:14G.
07:15And a vowel, please.
07:17And lastly, U.
07:19And 30 seconds.
07:21male
07:24The varsity of Tenoch.
07:28One over aknowledge.
07:29A.
07:29One over a row.
07:30The slip.
07:35Vanessa.
07:35Kui.
07:36Bye-bye.
07:36Good night.
07:36Good morning.
07:36Do you do it?
07:36Yeah.
07:51That's time up, Cillian.
07:53Er, six.
07:54Six, and for Rob?
07:56Seven.
07:57Seven, what have you got, Cillian?
07:58Imaged.
07:59Yes, and for the seven, Rob?
08:01Imagery.
08:02Imagery.
08:02Excellent, well done.
08:03Very nice spot.
08:04That's what happens when you've been in national TV four times before.
08:08Your brain thinks quicker.
08:10Don't worry, yours will settle down, Cillian.
08:1213 points for champion dictionary corner.
08:15Speak to me.
08:16That was it, really.
08:17That was it.
08:17We found a bajree as well.
08:18So, myriad.
08:19It's a nice six.
08:20Right.
08:21Beautiful six.
08:21Switch to the numbers, Rob?
08:23Can I have one large and five small, please?
08:25You can indeed.
08:26The first one of the week.
08:27One from the top and five little.
08:29And these numbers are four, five, eight.
08:34Eight, ten, and 75.
08:38And the target to reach 274.
08:40Two, seven, four.
08:41Numbers up.
08:42Two, seven, and 75.
09:14274. Rob?
09:15Yes, 274.
09:16And Cillian? Yeah, 274.
09:18Lovely. Rob, off you go.
09:20So, four times 75.
09:21Four times 75, 300.
09:24And then ten plus eight plus eight, 26.
09:27Perfect. Take them away. Well done.
09:29For you, Cillian? The same.
09:31Just show Rob as your strangers.
09:33Yeah, yeah, fine. There you go.
09:35APPLAUSE
09:37That's how trust is built. Well done to Cillian getting on the board.
09:40And this is the first Tea Time Teaser of the week.
09:43Serious words are going to be needed with our production
09:46about the tone of this show these days.
09:48Lend it sag. Lend it sag.
09:51Part of his anatomy lends itself to sagging.
09:55Part of his anatomy lends itself to sagging.
10:17Dangly-est, dangly-est. Let's not leave Cillian hanging any longer
10:21and get some more letters.
10:23Can I have A constant, please?
10:25Thank you, Cillian. N.
10:26Another one, please.
10:29D.
10:30Vowel.
10:31O.
10:32Another vowel, please.
10:33U.
10:35A consonant.
10:37R.
10:39Another consonant.
10:41D.
10:42A vowel, please.
10:44I.
10:46A vowel, please.
10:49E.
10:51And a consonant, please.
10:53And...
10:53Lastly, L.
10:55Thank you, Rachel.
11:19менее THREES
11:23tell us how toot.
11:24May I tour.
11:25This is awesome.
11:27Killian. I have a seven.
11:29Very good, and Rob? I'll stick with seven, yeah.
11:32I'm feeling like I want to gamble on a Monday, OK.
11:35Killian. Rounded.
11:36Rounded. Let's see what's safe Rob has.
11:39That's what I've got as well. Rounded, yeah.
11:41What were you going to go for? Unriddle.
11:44Unriddle, very good.
11:45Yes, to solve. Well spotted.
11:48I mean, I know you didn't play it, but it's an excellent spot.
11:51Wow. Unriddle. Very good. Yeah.
11:53That would have been for eight.
11:55Instead, it's seven points each.
11:57Can we add anything, Ria?
11:58There is a seven, which is un-oiled.
12:01Which is before it's oiled.
12:03Something like a hinge. Yeah.
12:05A rusty hinge, for example. A car engine.
12:08Exactly right. A back.
12:10Possibly. All of these things.
12:12Let's move on. More letters. Rob.
12:15Cass, out of the constant again, please. Thank you, Rob.
12:18R. And again, please.
12:21T. And a vowel.
12:22I. And again, please.
12:25A. Consonant.
12:29P. And again, please.
12:31S. And a vowel.
12:34E. And a consonant.
12:38W. And another consonant, please.
12:42And lastly, V. Half a minute.
13:14We'll see you next time.
13:15We'll see you next time.
13:16It's a lot going on there, wasn't it? Rob?
13:18Seven.
13:19For you and Killian?
13:20Seven as well.
13:21Look at this, told you it's settling.
13:22Rob?
13:23Traps.
13:24And for you, Killian?
13:26Waiters.
13:26OK, it's traps over the dictionary corner.
13:29So much going on.
13:30How did we fare?
13:31There's a couple of eights there.
13:35Privates, which can be dangliest, or wiretaps.
13:39Fantastic, an FBI word that for me.
13:41It is, isn't it?
13:41Yeah.
13:41Yeah, all about surveillance.
13:43Yeah.
13:4537, 24.
13:46You've found your feet for sure, Killian, and it's your numbers.
13:49Can I have two large and four small, please, Rachel?
13:51Two large, four not.
13:53Coming up, Killian, thank you.
13:54And the four small ones for this round.
13:56One, four, four and eight, and the large 250 and 100.
14:02And the target to reach 524.
14:05Five, two, four.
14:07Numbers up.
14:0712 majority often and then a half year.
14:10Two, three, one.
14:11Two, four.
14:26Two, four.
14:27Two, four, four, four.
14:29Two, three, one.
14:32Fifa and three!
14:33Two, three, four!
14:34Four, three, four.
14:35Five, four year!
14:35Six, five, four.
14:35One, five, four!
14:36Eight, eight, one.
14:38And that's time. 5-2-4, Killian.
14:42No, not close enough. Not close enough. How about you, Rob?
14:46520. Off you go for seven points.
14:49100 plus 4 is 104. 104.
14:524 plus 1 is 5.
14:55Yep, 524 below.
14:58Why was that so difficult? What are we missing?
15:00You're missing 4 minus 1 is 3.
15:04Add that to 50 for 53.
15:0653 times 8 is 424.
15:10And add on the 100 for 5-2-4.
15:12Nice.
15:15A lot of people at home did the 4 minus 1 multiplied by 8
15:19to get the 24, and then there's just dead ends from there.
15:22So it's the problem. That's the problem.
15:24Right, well, Rob picks up some much-needed points, a 20-point lead.
15:28As we have our first chat of the week with Ria Lina,
15:31who, I feel like I'm about to do some sort of mind-reading trick
15:34we've never met.
15:35No.
15:35Just to confirm to the public we've never met.
15:37So it really is a stranger thing.
15:39But is this your card?
15:39It is! Wow, that's what I was thinking of.
15:42So it really is a getting-to-know-you week for everyone.
15:45So take me back to the early days.
15:47Tell us a little bit about yourself and sort of away from comedy,
15:51just maybe school, growing up.
15:52Away from the comedy.
15:52Growing up?
15:53You sound like my mother.
15:54My mother didn't want me to go into comedy either.
15:56Really?
15:57Yeah, so I'm a stand-up comedian,
15:58but my mother is a physicist and a computer programmer,
16:01and so she very much said,
16:03you will go to university and study sciences.
16:06I wanted to go to drama school,
16:08so I rebelled and I picked biology.
16:12And I came back and I said,
16:13Mom, okay, I have my bachelor's now.
16:15Can I please go into the arts?
16:16Can I please go into performance?
16:17She said, no, that's not enough to fall back on.
16:19So I went back to university and I got a master's,
16:21and I came back and I said,
16:22okay, I have a master's.
16:23I have something to fall back on.
16:24Can I please go into performance?
16:26And she said, no.
16:27So I went back and I got a PhD and I came back,
16:29and I said, okay, I have a PhD now.
16:31Not even you have a PhD.
16:33Can I please go into the arts?
16:35And she said, okay, fine,
16:36but only because you finally have something proper
16:39to fall back on.
16:40And I said, are you kidding me?
16:41When am I ever going to need to fall back
16:43on a degree in virology?
16:45When is it in-depth knowledge of viruses
16:47ever going to be useful?
16:50She proved me wrong, didn't she?
16:52So your mom was right then?
16:54Yes.
16:56She was.
16:57Wow, all right.
16:58Next slide, please.
16:59Sorry, next round, please.
17:01Thank you very much.
17:04And we do it with letters, Rob.
17:07Consonant, please.
17:08Thank you, Rob.
17:10T.
17:10And again, please.
17:12G.
17:13And again, please.
17:15K.
17:17Vowel.
17:18A.
17:19And again.
17:20E.
17:21And again.
17:22A.
17:24And a consonant, please.
17:26T.
17:27And again.
17:29E.
17:31Erm.
17:34And another vowel, please.
17:37Lastly, I.
17:38And here we go again.
17:39Will.
17:40E.
17:55And here we go.
18:05That's why we go.
18:06Oh, dear.
18:08To.
18:09Oh, dear.
18:09And here we go.ます,
18:09go. And here
18:09it's over. And here it
18:10Rob?
18:11Seven.
18:12And for you, Killian?
18:14I think I've got seven.
18:15Rob?
18:16Tankage.
18:18Tankage.
18:18And Killian?
18:20Er, teating?
18:21Teating as in T-E-A-T-I-N-G.
18:25Sadly, not there is a verb.
18:28I can see where you were coming from, a young lamb,
18:30but it's not there, unfortunately.
18:33Tankage definitely is the storage capacity of a tank.
18:35Right, OK, so the I and G is what we're looking at.
18:37A lot of people would have just had the taking and that was it.
18:41Yeah.
18:41How did you get on, Rhea?
18:43There's another seven, agitate.
18:45Yeah.
18:47That was as far as it went, yeah.
18:48As far as it goes, all right.
18:49Let's go again, then.
18:50Let's go again.
18:51And it's for you, Killian, to decide.
18:54Can I have a consonant, please?
18:56Thank you, Killian.
18:57H.
18:59A vowel?
19:01O.
19:02Another vowel, please.
19:04A.
19:05A consonant?
19:06G.
19:07Another consonant?
19:10R.
19:12Another consonant, please.
19:15L.
19:16A vowel?
19:17O.
19:20A consonant, please.
19:23Q.
19:24And a vowel, please.
19:26It's a challenging one.
19:27A final E.
19:29Is it A?
19:30Let's go.
19:30A vowel, please.
19:33A vowel, please.
19:34A vowel, please.
19:37A vowel, please.
19:41A vowel, please.
19:43A vowel, please.
19:45A vowel, please.
19:46A vowel, please.
19:46A vowel, please.
19:47A vowel, please.
19:52A vowel, please.
19:55A vowel, please.
20:02Kellian?
20:02Just a five.
20:03And for you, Rob?
20:04A very dodgy five.
20:06OK. What's yours, Kellian?
20:07I've got a large.
20:09And what about you, Rob?
20:10H-A-L-E-R.
20:12Yeah, it is in.
20:13Yep, Monetary Unit of the Czech Republic.
20:15And you knew that, Rob, didn't you?
20:17Yeah, that's why you picked that one.
20:18Yes, of course.
20:19Yeah, of course you did, yeah.
20:20Anything else, Ria?
20:21Yes, there's a rather unusual six-letter word called garao,
20:25and rather unusually means it's a type of protest.
20:28Instead of stopping the workers going to work,
20:30you stop your employer from leaving.
20:32So you kind of, like, almost take your boss hostage.
20:35Exactly.
20:35Until your demands are met.
20:37Really?
20:38Right, well, I mean, that's...
20:40It is taking someone hostage, really, isn't it?
20:42It is pretty much, yeah.
20:42This is a word from Indian English.
20:44It comes up quite a lot on Countdown, actually.
20:46Goodness me.
20:46Yeah.
20:47All right, let's get back to the numbers.
20:49Third time of asking, so back to our champion.
20:52One large and five more, please.
20:53Thank you, Rob.
20:54One big five little coming up.
20:56This time they are two, eight, six, nine, four.
21:03And a big one, 25.
21:05And a target, 801.
21:08801 numbers up.
21:09One big one, two, three.
21:15Oh, no.
21:35Oh, my God.
21:40.
21:40801, Rob.
21:42Yes, 801.
21:43And for you, Kellyanne?
21:45Just 800.
21:47OK, Rob, big ten points, then.
21:49So 25 times 8 times 4.
21:52Times 8 times 4 is 800.
21:54Then 9 minus 6 plus 2.
21:58Yep, there you go. Add that. Well done. 801.
22:01APPLAUSE
22:03A few ways to get there. Champion looking good for his fifth win.
22:08But let's see when we come back after a break.
22:10Still six rounds to change that.
22:12And your tea-time teaser is Deb Let Her.
22:15Deb Let Her.
22:17Deb Let Her grievances out in one long rant.
22:20Deb Let Her grievances out in one long rant.
22:45Blethered, blethered. I will not blether on.
22:47I'll simply say more letters, please, Cillian.
22:50Can I have a consonant, please?
22:52Thank you, Cillian.
22:53R.
22:54Another consonant, please.
22:56N.
22:57A vowel.
22:59I.
23:00Another vowel.
23:02E.
23:04Consonant.
23:05P.
23:07Another consonant, please, Rachel.
23:09S.
23:11A vowel.
23:13I.
23:15Another consonant, please.
23:17B.
23:19And another consonant, please.
23:21And lastly, S.
23:23And start the clock.
23:24A vowel.
23:27A vowel.
23:28A vowel.
23:34A vowel.
23:41A vowel.
23:42A vowel.
23:45A vowel.
23:45A vowel.
23:46A vowel.
23:47A vowel.
23:47A vowel.
23:48A vowel.
23:48A vowel.
23:49A vowel.
23:50A vowel.
23:52A vowel.
23:52A vowel.
23:53A vowel.
23:53A vowel.
23:55Cillian? I have a seven. A seven. Well done. Rob? Eight. Oh, look at that. Cillian, what's a seven?
24:01Snipers. What have you spotted? Inspires. Inspires. Very good indeed. Very good indeed. Eight points for you.
24:10What letter was left over then? Sue's the B, so I'm betting that you don't have a nine.
24:15No, I'm just fiddling around with various things in the dictionary, but I can't find one.
24:19OK. Right, let's get more letters from you, Rob.
24:23Can I have a consonant, please? Thank you, Rob. N. And again.
24:28S. And A again, please.
24:31M. And a vowel.
24:34E. And again, please.
24:36O. And again.
24:38E.
24:39Conson, please.
24:41T.
24:42And again.
24:45X.
24:46And again, please.
24:48And lastly, S.
24:50And good luck.
25:22Right, Rob.
25:23A dodgy seven.
25:24I thought you were going to go dodgy here. Cillian?
25:26I have a six.
25:27Yeah, there's a few risks, but you're not taking it. What have you got?
25:30I've got sonnets.
25:31Sonnets. And for you, Rob?
25:33X-tones.
25:34X-tones.
25:36So, for sonnets, you'd need the two N's, unfortunately. And there is no X-tones either. I'm sorry about that.
25:44Two bomb notes. Two bomb notes. So, Ria, anything counts for you. It's a lap of honour. It's an open
25:51goal. What have you got?
25:52For seven, sextons.
25:56Now, sextons.
25:57Yes.
25:58Is that mathematical? Is that architectural?
26:01Church.
26:02Church.
26:02Yeah, so they look after church. So, a bell ringer, quite often a grave digger, they perform duties to look
26:08after a church.
26:09Good stuff.
26:09Yes. Right, four rounds still to play today. My message is straight to Susie here, which is, what is your
26:16origins of words?
26:17It comes from Terry Thomas, at least the question does. Terry wrote in to ask if I could tell him
26:23the origin of the word gremlin.
26:26Not sure if you've been watching the brilliant horror film, The Gremlins. 1984, I can't believe it was that long
26:33ago.
26:34And I remember when it came out, a huge commercial success, but although it seemed as if it was suitable
26:39for a young audience, actually, it suddenly became really terrifying, didn't it?
26:43And, you know, they were quite evil, these cuddly gremlins, in the end.
26:46But gremlins have actually never been that friendly.
26:50And there's always been the idea of mischievous, if not evil, kind of monsters that were causing havoc.
26:58And they were given the name of gremlin by RAF fighter pilots during World War II.
27:03So any unexplained mechanical fault, anything that seemed to go wrong, they would blame them on the gremlins, these kind
27:09of malevolent sort of sprites, if you like.
27:12And then Roald Dahl really pushed it into the mainstream with his book, The Gremlins, as well.
27:18That was in 1943.
27:19But I suppose quite suitably, the actual origin of the word is a little bit tricky.
27:24So some people think it's from Irish.
27:26Some people think it's from a Dutch word, meaning to spoil.
27:30But there is very little evidence to support either of those.
27:34And the most plausible theory, actually, takes us somewhere else entirely.
27:37And that's that it's a blend or a portmanteau of goblin and a brand of beer that was brewed in
27:44Kent called Fremlins.
27:45So they thought you'd put goblins and Fremlins together as a suggestion that may be a jokey suggestion,
27:51that these were the type of spirits that you saw if you'd had one too many.
27:55And if that is the case, then it makes gremlins a pair with, well, join another expression that began in
28:02the skies,
28:02if you remember, gone for a burton, also used during the Second World War.
28:08And a reference, we think, to burton on ale, burton beer.
28:13And the idea was that if you'd gone into the water, if you'd gone into the drink, you had gone
28:18for a burton.
28:19So that one, really dark. But that's our best bet. Goblins and Fremlins beer.
28:23Very good indeed.
28:26Right, four rounds left to go.
28:30And Kellyanne, you'll choose these letters, Mick.
28:32Can I have a consonant, please?
28:34You can indeed. C.
28:36Another one, please.
28:38R.
28:40A vowel.
28:41A.
28:43A consonant, please.
28:44D.
28:46A consonant.
28:47W.
28:49And again.
28:51H.
28:52A vowel.
28:53E.
28:55And another vowel, please.
28:58O.
29:01And a consonant, please.
29:03And lastly, R.
29:05And kindine.
29:06A vowel.
29:10And a consonant.
29:10MUSIC PLAYS
29:37That'll have to do is, Cillian?
29:39Er, five. Five for you. And Rob?
29:42Seven. The five, Cillian?
29:44I've got Chaw. And Rob? Chowder.
29:47Ah, the old clam Chowder. Very good indeed.
29:49Very good. Anything else?
29:51Yes, there were a couple of eights in there.
29:54If you thought the gremlins were hardcore,
29:56you would have been harrowed by Alien.
29:58Harrowed and hardcore? Yeah.
30:00Very good. Well spotted. Right, 81, 29.
30:04On for the big century today is Rob, and it's your letters.
30:07Constant, please. Thank you, Rob.
30:10N. And again.
30:12S. And again, please.
30:15L. And a vowel.
30:17I. And again.
30:19E. And again, please.
30:21U. And a consonant.
30:25S. And another, please.
30:28And lastly, N.
30:33Last letters.
30:34A Cobiffe practice.
30:36Snakes.
30:48Yes, sir.
30:49Let me know.
30:49No.
31:05Rob, Gloriska is seven.
31:08And Killian?
31:09Six.
31:10Six, what's the six?
31:11Ensues.
31:13Ensues.
31:13And for you, Rob?
31:15Cloonies.
31:17What, it's in loads of Georges?
31:19Yes, I'm there.
31:20How are you spelling them?
31:22C-L-U-N-I-E-S.
31:24C-L.
31:25Um, no.
31:27Not there, unfortunately.
31:29And to noise ensues.
31:30I'm so sorry to say, Killian, because you need two E's.
31:33I wonder if you'd sort of paused the nation and everyone had to vote yes or no,
31:37is that word in, what the percentage would have been.
31:39Not very high from being in, I don't think, Rob.
31:42How did you get on there, Ria?
31:44Yeah.
31:44Well, for six, you could have had unless, which is the one E.
31:48Yeah.
31:49But for seven, there's, I'm going to say it wrong, sluices.
31:53Yeah, sluices.
31:54Exactly.
31:54Used to control water, gates, et cetera.
31:57Good stuff.
31:58Last numbers.
31:59Let's go out with a bang, Killian.
32:00Let's have it, young man.
32:01Can I have two large and four small, please?
32:04You can indeed, thank you, Killian.
32:05Two from the top, four not.
32:07And the final numbers of the day are three, two, five, six,
32:12and the large two, 25, and 100.
32:16And the target to reach 189.
32:18189.
32:19Numbers up.
32:51189.
32:51Low target.
32:52Killian, did you get it?
32:53Yeah.
32:54Good.
32:54And Rob?
32:54Yes, I did, yeah.
32:55Well done.
32:56Off you go, Killian, for 10 points.
32:57I got 100 times two.
32:59200.
33:00And then five plus six is 11.
33:02Yeah.
33:03Take one.
33:04Straightforward.
33:05189.
33:06Well done, 10 dogs.
33:07Rob?
33:08Same way.
33:09Same way.
33:09Excellent.
33:11That was easy, which is good, because it gave me about 28 seconds to work out more things you could
33:16do with longer arms.
33:17Come on your way at the end of the show, Rachel.
33:18But for now, fingers on the buzzers.
33:20As we reveal, Monday afternoons, Countdown Conundrum.
33:33Century and a fifth win.
33:34You've had a case.
33:35Let's have a look.
33:37Yes.
33:39And that's what you've done to Mr Bounden today.
33:42Well done, Rob.
33:43Back tomorrow.
33:44Yes.
33:45Looking for a second Octo Champ still of Series 90.
33:49Killian, what a joy.
33:50What a joy to have you in the studio.
33:52With someone with 10 dogs, you must have managed 39 points in, what, two hours sleep?
33:57Yeah.
33:58That was really good.
33:59Really fun.
34:00Do you let them all sleep in bed with you?
34:02No, I don't.
34:03I have no room left in the bed.
34:05Crazy, right?
34:05It'd be absolutely crazy.
34:07Well, great.
34:08Lovely to talk about them today.
34:09Lovely all the doggies watching at home.
34:11And Killian, thanks for being here.
34:13And Rhea, part of family already.
34:16It's been a pleasure.
34:16Thanks for having me.
34:17Great.
34:17See you tomorrow, Suze.
34:18Yeah, see you then.
34:19How many times do you...
34:21I do my washing, I get it out, and as I'm going up the stairs, pants fall, socks fall.
34:26Just give me an extra six inches in each hand.
34:29I'm not sold on this idea.
34:30I'm going to keep my own arms, if you don't mind.
34:32No more monkeying around.
34:33We'll just see you back here tomorrow.
34:34You can count on us.
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