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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33The Research Department informs me that today is Pi Day.
00:38It's nothing to do with guzzling, it's all to do with maths.
00:41And I'll be turning to Rachel shortly for a lot of assistance on this.
00:45But in the meantime, Pi, the mathematical constant, is approximately 3.14, coinciding, of course, with today's date.
00:53NASA apparently used Pi to an accuracy of 15 digits in their calculations for sending rockets into space.
01:01And finally, there's a concert hall in Hamburg where algorithms, it says, were used to design the shape and positioning
01:08of 10,000 acoustic panels to achieve the best listening experience.
01:13So Pi is pretty important.
01:15Have I come across a piece of design where Pi was important?
01:18I've got absolutely no idea.
01:21Rachel, tell us a bit more.
01:22Well, Pi Day, people do moan in this country because it's 3.14 when you write it in the American
01:27way, so the 14th of March.
01:28But anyway, that aside, it's just a way to celebrate maths.
01:31And I'm wearing a piece of design that's celebrating maths because a young lady in our audience, a countdown fan
01:36called Rachel, she's got a brilliant name.
01:38She did a maths degree, brilliant maths degree.
01:39Well done.
01:40And she decided to use her maths to design dresses.
01:43So this has actually got a zip in it and you can buy two dresses and you have two top
01:47halves, two bottom halves and therefore four dresses.
01:50So she's using a little bit of ingenuity and she's a young entrepreneur, so I wanted to celebrate that today.
01:55What a brilliant idea.
01:56Yes, and if, like some ladies, you might have a larger bottom half, you can get a different size.
02:01It's very clever.
02:02Brilliant stuff.
02:04Rachel, who's here?
02:05Patrick Murphy's back, primary school teacher from Belfast.
02:09You had a good win over Richard yesterday.
02:11Well done.
02:12And you're joined by Ted Anscombe, semi-retired steward occasionally now at the NEC, I think, from Balsall Common and
02:21a big Scrabble player.
02:22Indeed.
02:23You organise Scrabble competitions.
02:24I do, yes.
02:25Well, one, yes.
02:26Was your son here in the summer?
02:27He was, my son Jack, yes.
02:29My son Jack, yeah.
02:31Yes, I think he did OK, but he was beaten by a subsequent quarter-finalist, I think.
02:37He was beaten by someone who had a really good day, but, yes.
02:40Well, good luck to you.
02:41He did well.
02:42This is sort of bragging rights up for grabs here.
02:45Absolutely, yeah.
02:46All right.
02:46Well, good luck to you both.
02:47Let's have a big round of applause for Patrick and Ted.
02:52APPLAUSE
02:56And over in the corner, Susie Dent, and joined once again by journalist and sport broadcaster, the wonderful Susie Perry.
03:03Welcome back, Susie.
03:03Thank you very much.
03:08And now it is time for the first letters game.
03:11Yes, Patrick.
03:13Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:14Afternoon, Patrick.
03:15Consonant, please.
03:16Start today with F.
03:19Vowel.
03:20I
03:21Consonant
03:22R
03:24Consonant
03:26L
03:28Vowel
03:31O
03:32Consonant
03:33N
03:35Vowel
03:37E
03:39Consonant
03:41T
03:43And a consonant, please.
03:46And lastly, R.
03:48And the clock starts now.
04:13And the clock starts now.
04:20Yes, Patrick.
04:22Just a five.
04:23And Ted?
04:24Eight.
04:25And an eight.
04:26Patrick?
04:27Er, Lainer.
04:29Now then, Ted.
04:30Frontier.
04:31Well done, Ted.
04:32Yes.
04:32Excellent start.
04:33Very good.
04:34Well done.
04:36Well done, indeed.
04:38And the Susies.
04:39Susie Perry?
04:39Erm, Frontier, we had eight.
04:42Loftier for seven.
04:43Yeah.
04:44Didn't get better than eight, though, did I?
04:45No.
04:45Excellent.
04:46Well done.
04:47OK.
04:48Now, Ted on eight, and it's Ted's letters game.
04:51Yes, sir.
04:52Hi, Rachel.
04:52Hi, Ted.
04:53A vowel, please.
04:54Start with U.
04:56And another.
04:58O.
04:59And a third.
05:01E.
05:03Consonant.
05:04M.
05:05And another.
05:07L.
05:09Another consonant.
05:11M.
05:12And another consonant.
05:15J.
05:17Thou.
05:19A.
05:21And a consonant, please.
05:23And the last one, S.
05:26Stand by.
05:26Turn, right.
05:30Oh, yeah.
05:54I'll see you now.
05:56Bye, bye.
05:56Bye.
05:58Yes, Ted.
05:59Six.
06:00Patrick, two sixes?
06:02Yeah.
06:03Ted, jewels.
06:04And?
06:05Same word.
06:06Two jewels.
06:08Yes, unit of energy.
06:09Very good.
06:10And the Suisies?
06:12There was a seven there as well.
06:13Jealous.
06:1614 plays six.
06:17Ted on 14.
06:18And it's Patrick's numbers game.
06:21Yes, sir.
06:21One from the top, please, Rachel.
06:23And any other five?
06:24Thank you, Patrick.
06:25One large five.
06:26A little.
06:27And for the first time today, your selection is ten, three, six, two, one, and fifty.
06:36And the target?
06:38Eight hundred and thirty-four.
06:39Eight, three, four.
06:40One, three, four.
07:12Patrick, 837.
07:15And Ted?
07:16No, sorry, I missed that one.
07:18Down to you, Patrick.
07:1910 plus 6 equals 16.
07:22Yep.
07:23Times 50.
07:24800.
07:28800 plus 3.
07:31803.
07:34I've done it wrong again.
07:36Nope.
07:38Moving on, sadly, Rachel, down to you.
07:42Yes, there were a couple of ways there.
07:45If you say 10 plus 6, again, 16.
07:4950 plus 2, 52.
07:51Times those two together for 832.
07:54And then 3 minus 1 is 2.
07:56And add it on.
07:57Oh, well done, well done.
08:02Rachel sails into the rescue.
08:0514, please.
08:066, Patrick on 6.
08:07And it's time for our first tea time teaser, which is neck odour.
08:11And the clue of the sailor was James's deputy, and he'd often serve raw food.
08:17The sailor was James's deputy, and he'd often serve raw food.
08:21It would indeed be undercooked.
08:48So, undercooked is the word we're looking for.
08:51Undercook.
08:5214 plays 6.
08:54Patrick on 6.
08:55And it's Ted's letters again.
08:57A vowel, please.
08:58Thank you, Ted.
09:00O.
09:00And another.
09:02U.
09:03And another vowel.
09:05O.
09:07Consonant.
09:08N.
09:10Consonant.
09:11D.
09:11Another consonant, please.
09:13L.
09:14Another consonant.
09:17Y.
09:19A vowel.
09:22I.
09:25Consonant, please.
09:26And lastly, R.
09:28Stand by.
09:29McGinnis.��
09:32161. username
09:34161. Moon.
09:35Do.
09:35Do.
09:42Do.
09:45Do.
09:50Do.
09:52Do.
09:53Do.
09:53Do.
09:53Do.
09:54Do.
09:55Do.
10:01Ted?
10:02Seven.
10:03Patrick?
10:04Seven.
10:05Ted?
10:06Roundly.
10:07Roundly and?
10:08Same word, yeah.
10:09Roundly, roundly.
10:10Susie?
10:11Snap.
10:11That was a jumble of letters, wasn't it?
10:14Yeah, roundly, seven.
10:15Susie, anything else?
10:17Ditto for me as well.
10:18Yep.
10:19Nothing better.
10:20That's roundly, OK.
10:2121 to 13.
10:23Patrick?
10:24Letters game, Patrick.
10:25Consonant, please, Rachel.
10:27Thank you, Patrick.
10:29T?
10:30Vowel.
10:31A?
10:33Consonant.
10:34P?
10:36Consonant.
10:38W?
10:40Vowel.
10:41E?
10:43Consonant.
10:44N?
10:46Consonant.
10:47S?
10:49Vowel.
10:51U?
10:52And the consonant, please.
10:53And finally, G.
10:57Stand by.
10:59Kitch.
11:00And the consonant.
11:15Musonant.
11:15I think we're going to talk a little part of the news.
11:20Mom.
11:20Agом.
11:20We want you to be back.alling's
11:20system. We can,
11:20when we're going to be right. We'll be right
11:20for you too. We'll be right back.
11:21is it? We've been right back.
11:29Well, Patrick?
11:30Just a five.
11:31A five and?
11:32And a five from me.
11:34Patrick?
11:34Kirst.
11:36Ted?
11:36Pawns.
11:38Can we get beyond five?
11:40The Susies.
11:41You can if you think about Snoopy or little snacks on a bar.
11:46Peanuts for seven.
11:48Oh, well done, yeah.
11:49Peanuts.
11:50Susie, anything else?
11:51No, that was the top seven.
11:52It'll do.
11:53It'll do.
11:5418 to 26, and it's numbers for you, Ted.
11:59Four large, please, and two small.
12:01Four large and two little.
12:03Thank you, Ted.
12:04And these two small ones are nine and four.
12:08And the big four, 50, 100, 75 and 25.
12:13And the target, 721.
12:16Seven to one.
12:48Yes, Ted?
12:49Seven to one.
12:50And Patrick?
12:51Not near enough.
12:52Down to you, Ted.
12:54Nine times 75.
12:56675.
12:5850 minus the four.
13:0050 minus the four is 46.
13:03And add it on.
13:04Lovely.
13:04Well done.
13:0571.
13:06Well done.
13:0836 now to Patrick's 18.
13:11Well done.
13:12Well done, Ted.
13:14And now we link to Susie.
13:16Susie Perry.
13:17Moto GP.
13:18What a season it was.
13:20It really was.
13:21It's difficult quite to know where to start.
13:23The 2017 year was just incredible.
13:27Let me start by explaining what it is in case people don't really know.
13:30So this is motorbike racing, and it's essentially the Formula One on two wheels.
13:34And we start off the season in the desert, a night race in Qatar, Argentina, America.
13:40Then we come to Europe, and then we end up by going to the Far East, and we go to
13:45Japan, Australia, Malaysia.
13:46And then we end the season in Spain.
13:48And that is really where the excitement just almost exploded, because the season last year went down to the wire.
13:56And this is quite a rare event in motorsport.
13:58It often gets sewn up, you know, a few races before, and takes the sting out of the final part
14:03of the season, really.
14:04But last year, it went down between two riders, a Spanish rider called Marc Marquez, and an Italian rider called
14:10Andrea De Vizioso.
14:12And Andrea De Vizioso previously hadn't really done an awful lot of winning.
14:16So the fact that he had five wins that year was pretty extraordinary.
14:20And it was, they'd matched each other evenly throughout the year, although at the start, it had been the Yamaha
14:25riders that were on top.
14:27So we'd had lots of different leaders of the championship, lots of different race winners.
14:31So, you know, it really kept us talking, and it really kept us interesting throughout the year.
14:36And, yeah, ultimately, it came down to the last race.
14:39Marc Marquez, the reigning world champion from 2016.
14:42And he has just redefined the way that motorcycles are raced.
14:47At the age of 24, he won, and he now has six world titles.
14:51You know, he is something really, really special.
14:54But we'd seen great things throughout the year.
14:56And probably my most favorite race, the most exciting race that I've ever been able to be at and see
15:03was in Phillip Island last year.
15:05And they were so close, the riders, that when they came into Park Fermi at the end, Valentino Rossi, Marc
15:12Marquez, they had stripes of rubber on their suits.
15:15Yeah.
15:15From the fact that the tyres had been tight.
15:16I mean, it doesn't get any closer than that.
15:18You know, they were right on the edge of respect.
15:20And some people would say they'd maybe gone over the edge of respect.
15:24But it was just incredible racing to watch.
15:27And, you know, real heart and mouth stuff.
15:29It's just what you want in a year of motorcycle racing.
15:32When you've had a year like that, you think, here we go again now, about to start the new season.
15:36Can we top that?
15:37So, really excited.
15:39And also, we had a win from the old guy who people might recognize the name of, Valentino Rossi.
15:45And at 38 years old, still in with a shot of winning the title.
15:48Just an extraordinary career.
15:50You know, over 20 years winning races.
15:52It's really great.
15:54So, if you've never seen it, tune in.
15:56Fantastic.
15:57Very good.
16:02It is an extraordinary thing to watch, actually.
16:05In one sentence, what is it that makes the greatest biker?
16:13In one sentence.
16:15It is the person that can ride the bike to the absolute limit.
16:22Fearless, dedicated and passionate.
16:25With the right package underneath him.
16:27The right tyres and the right motor.
16:30Yeah.
16:30Lovely.
16:31Thanks so much, Susie.
16:3236 to 18.
16:34Ted in the lead at the moment.
16:35Patrick, it's your letters again.
16:37Consonant, please, Rachel.
16:39Thank you, Patrick.
16:40T.
16:41Val.
16:43I.
16:44Consonant.
16:46Z.
16:48Val.
16:49E.
16:50Consonant.
16:52P.
16:53Consonant.
16:54L.
16:56Consonant.
16:57S.
16:59Val.
17:01I.
17:02And consonant, please.
17:04And lastly, D.
17:06Stand by.
17:07Have a good walk.
17:11Bye.
17:18Bye.
17:23Bye.
17:25Bye.
17:28Bye.
17:30Bye.
17:38Well, Patrick.
17:39Five.
17:40And Ted.
17:41I'll try a seven.
17:43Patrick.
17:43Pale.
17:44Now then, Ted.
17:47Pit side.
17:49Nice.
17:51It's not in.
17:53I'm so sorry.
17:53It's a really, really, really good try, but it's not there, I'm afraid, Ted.
17:57Sorry.
17:57What have we got then?
17:59Susie.
18:00Slide.
18:01That's for six.
18:02Spited.
18:03Yeah.
18:04That's six as well.
18:05Yeah, tidies.
18:07Do sixes, Nick.
18:09All right.
18:0936 to 23.
18:11And Ted.
18:12Off we go.
18:13A vowel, please.
18:15Thank you, Ted.
18:16A.
18:16And another.
18:19E.
18:20And a third, please.
18:21U.
18:23Consonant.
18:24C.
18:26Consonant.
18:27D.
18:29Consonant.
18:29S.
18:31Another consonant.
18:33V.
18:35A vowel, please.
18:37A.
18:38And a consonant.
18:40And lastly, P.
18:43Countdown.
18:44Whatever.ceu
18:45vary. It's
19:02true. There is
19:05true. I'll
19:07आ. And a
19:07Vienna. Yes,
19:07I want to know.
19:07I? I'll be
19:08be it. I'm
19:09gonna go to night.
19:09Uh. I'm gonna be it.
19:15Yes, Ted. Six. And Patrick. Two sixes. Ted? Spaced. Patrick? Paused. Paused. And the Susies? Yeah, paused. Seven upcased? Yes.
19:31Printing and typesetting term, really, or an editing term, is to change a lowercase letter to an uppercase one to
19:37upcase them.
19:38Upcase 29, page 42. And Patrick, here we go. Your numbers game. One from the top, please, Rachel. Only five
19:45others. Thank you, Patrick. One large five little coming up for you. And this time around, the five small numbers
19:52are two, six, one, seven, and four. And the large one, 100. And the target for you, 780. 780.
20:34Yes, Patrick.
20:357, 7, 2. And Ted? 7, 7, 3. Right. Thank you, Ted. Six plus four plus one is 11. Six
20:46plus four plus one, 11. Plus the 100. 111. Times the seven. 7, 7, 7.
20:56I've got it wrong, sorry. Patrick, now's your chance. He doesn't need to worry, I got it wrong as well.
21:02I've got it wrong. Rachel, help us.
21:08Yes, there were quite a few ways for this, I have to say. You could have said four times seven,
21:1328, plus two, plus 100, for 130, and times it by six.
21:20Well done. That's the way. Thank you, Rachel.
21:24So good. All right. So 29 stays, and so does 42.
21:29Turn on 42 as we turn to our second tea time teaser, which is ardour, none.
21:34And the clue, Sue had a lot of ardour, and she wasn't a nun.
21:38She gave me this.
21:40Sue had a lot of ardour, and she wasn't a nun.
21:43She gave me this.
21:59Welcome back. Welcome back.
22:01I left with the clue.
22:03Sue had a lot of ardour, and she wasn't a nun.
22:05She gave me this.
22:07She gave me the runaround.
22:09Runaround.
22:11Runaround Sue, indeed.
22:1242 to 29.
22:14Ted on 42.
22:15Ted, your letters came.
22:17A vowel, please.
22:19Thank you, Ted.
22:20E.
22:20And another.
22:22I.
22:23And a third vowel.
22:24O.
22:26Consonant.
22:27S.
22:29Consonant.
22:30D.
22:31Consonant.
22:32K.
22:33Consonant.
22:35T.
22:37Another consonant.
22:39R.
22:41And a vowel, please.
22:42And lastly, I.
22:46Stand by.
22:47And lastly, I.
23:17Yes, Ted.
23:18Seven.
23:19Seven.
23:20Patrick.
23:21Six.
23:21And your six is?
23:23Risk.
23:25Ted.
23:26Well, I'm hoping Roysted.
23:28R-O-I-S-T-E-D.
23:30Certainly be Roystering.
23:32I don't think Roysted with that second E-R is there.
23:36It's not, I'm afraid.
23:37Roysted, but not Roysted.
23:39Sorry.
23:40Bad luck.
23:41Yeah.
23:41What can we have?
23:42Susie?
23:43We came up with a word, which is sometimes how I describe myself.
23:47Dorkiest.
23:48I certainly am too.
23:49It means socially awkward, really.
23:52Neither of you.
23:53A bit kind of ungainly and not really with it.
23:56Not neither of you are dorky.
23:5835 plays 42.
24:00Patrick sort of come on a bit there.
24:02And it's Patrick's letters game.
24:04Yes, sir.
24:05Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:06Thank you, Patrick.
24:07P.
24:08Vial.
24:08Vial.
24:09A.
24:10Consonant.
24:12L.
24:13Vial.
24:14O.
24:16Consonant.
24:17C.
24:19Consonant.
24:20R.
24:22Vial.
24:23U.
24:25Consonant.
24:26N.
24:28And the vowel, please.
24:29And lastly, A.
24:32Countdown.
25:04Mm, Patrick.
25:06A five.
25:07A five and...
25:08No, just only a four.
25:10And a four from Ted.
25:11What?
25:11Cole.
25:13And Patrick?
25:14Coral.
25:15And coral.
25:16Yes, both absolutely fine.
25:18But we can beat them, Susie?
25:21Can we?
25:22For seven, lacuna.
25:25Yes.
25:26Very good.
25:26Relating to a lacuna, an unfilled space or a gap or a missing portion.
25:30Okay.
25:31And there's also copular, C-O-P-U-L-A-R, which is another linguistics term, really,
25:37about connecting words, words that connect two things together.
25:41So two sevens for you.
25:44Thank you for that.
25:45So only two points in it, gentlemen.
25:48Ted, two points ahead.
25:50Wow.
25:50And Susie, we turn to you now for your wonderful origins of words.
25:54And today, what have you for us?
25:56Well, yesterday I was talking about the origin of the expression being fobbed off
26:00and talking a little bit about the urban myth that it comes from the Essex village of fobbing.
26:06Lovely as that might be.
26:08Sadly, there's no evidence to suggest that it's true.
26:11And I also mentioned in passing a cock and bull story, which means, you know, something that's complete bunkum.
26:17Bunkum, of course, one of my favourite word origins, which I know I've mentioned before, but I love it.
26:21It goes back to a congressman who stood up and driveled for hours and hours and hours
26:27and speaking on behalf of his constituents for Bunkum County.
26:31I love that one.
26:32But cock and bull pretty much means the same thing.
26:35It's the same thing.
26:36But again, it goes back to a particular place, possibly.
26:39This is how the story goes.
26:41It starts in Stony Stratford.
26:44And Stony Stratford means the Stony Ford on the Roman road.
26:48And you'll find it in Buckinghamshire.
26:49It's on the old Roman road of Watling Street, which is now the A5, I think.
26:55And in the height of the coaching era, so this is the 18th and 19th centuries,
26:59Stony Stratford was a really important stop-off point for travellers.
27:03So they were travelling between London and the north of England.
27:06And it's that coaching history that is apparently behind the story of the cock and bull.
27:12Because the cock and the bull were two main coaching inns in Stony Stratford.
27:17And it's said that there was a great rivalry between groups of travellers.
27:20It was kind of pretty much friendly banter, but it usually resulted either in drunken fisticuffs
27:25or in competitions as to who could tell the most exaggerated and fanciful story.
27:31So eye-poppingly ludicrous stories.
27:34And the more ludicrous, the better.
27:37That is the story behind the cock and bull rubbish, really.
27:42But unfortunately, that too is itself cock and bull, because the real story is much less colourful,
27:47as so often in this case.
27:49And it probably goes back to a fable, a popular fable.
27:52We know it wasn't Aesop.
27:54We're not quite sure who it was.
27:55But illustrating the moral of not believing everything you hear.
27:59Probably part of the conversation between a cock and a bull.
28:02We do know this because there's a parallel thing going on in French.
28:06We haven't located the original fable, which is very sad.
28:08And I love the story of the cock and the bull in.
28:11And the travellers swapping all these amazing stories.
28:14But as I say, sadly, it's just a myth.
28:17Unfortunately.
28:21Thank you, Susie.
28:22Two points in it.
28:2342 to 40.
28:24Ted in the lead.
28:25And it's Ted we turn to.
28:27Yes, Ted.
28:29A vowel, please.
28:30Thank you, Ted.
28:31E.
28:31And another.
28:33A.
28:34And another.
28:35I.
28:37Consonant.
28:38R.
28:39Consonant.
28:40W.
28:42Consonant.
28:44R.
28:45Consonant.
28:47N.
28:48And another consonant, please.
28:51N.
28:55Oh, sorry.
28:56One more.
28:58You get one more.
28:59A vowel, please.
29:00And a final.
29:02E.
29:03Stand by.
29:33And anon.
29:33And a paraphram.
29:34And aARY.
29:34And a Japanese connected to a eating world.
29:35Well, Ted?
29:36Eight.
29:38Patrick?
29:39Eight.
29:40Two eights?
29:41I'll try Remainer.
29:43And?
29:43Same word.
29:45OK, thank you.
29:46And over in the corner?
29:47We had Remainer for eight as well.
29:49Yeah.
29:50Nothing else?
29:50No.
29:51Two points.
29:5250 plays 48.
29:54Patrick, your letters game.
29:55Consonant, please, Rachel.
29:57Thank you, Patrick.
29:58D.
30:00Vowel.
30:01E.
30:03Consonant.
30:04S.
30:05Vowel.
30:07E.
30:08Consonant.
30:10N.
30:11Consonant.
30:12F.
30:14Vowel.
30:16U.
30:17Consonant.
30:19B.
30:20And a vowel, please.
30:22And the last one.
30:24I.
30:25Stand by.
30:26We.
30:27What?
30:42I.
30:44We.
30:53I.
30:55We.
30:56well Patrick six and Ted seven Patrick son bed and defines very nice yes can we
31:08beat that I wonder Susie six now another six infused seven actually it's a seven
31:17isn't it yeah I'm not doing Rachel's job yeah that's a really good seven also
31:23fundies Christian fundamentalists an informal term not sure whether they use
31:27it of themselves I wouldn't have thought so tread carefully yeah 57 to 48 in we
31:35go to the final numbers game Ted for large can please and too small thank you
31:40Ted for large just the nine points in it so it could all change last numbers game
31:45of the day is six eight and then the large four seventy five twenty five one
31:52hundred and fifty and the target six hundred and twelve six one two
32:01so
32:09so
32:30Ted six one two think yes seven six one seven now don't you Ted eight times 75 eight 75
32:40600 50 over 25 is two yep times six eight or 12 now don't well done you've done it well
32:50done indeed well done
32:55so into the final round into the final round gentlemen fingers on buzzers let's roll today's countdown
33:02conundrum
33:11Patrick sandblast let's see whether you're right
33:17sandblast well done
33:24just that bit late just that bit late Ted takes it 67 to 58 so well well played over there
33:34Patrick got your teapot which is good take that home back to back to Belfast with our very best wishes
33:41you were nearly there nearly there all the way but it's Ted we turn to Ted is the chap that
33:47we'll see you tomorrow well done indeed well thank you
33:49thank you thank you fantastic so see you tomorrow Ted and we shall see the two Susie's tomorrow Susie Perry
33:55and Susie Dent of course we will we look forward to that
33:57thank you and Rachel of course have a very happy rest of your pie day Nick
34:02a bit of mental arithmetic on the way home oh yeah I'll do nothing else for the rest of the
34:06time shall I go to sleep tonight
34:07very good I hope it won't keep me up too long I'll be testing you tomorrow see you tomorrow same
34:12time same time same place you be sure of it a very good afternoon
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