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00:31Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:33Did you know that you can actually hire a pop culture coach?
00:38Now, I could do with one of those, Rachel. I really could.
00:40The trouble is they cost £35 an hour, and they bring you up to speed on anything you want to
00:44know about pop culture.
00:45TV shows, you know, who's doing what in the music industry and so forth.
00:51So if you're short or you're slightly embarrassed, you're going to a party,
00:54quick, quick, what's the latest rage?
00:56You ring up for £35 an hour your pop culture coach.
01:01And actually, you can ring them up on sort of short notice.
01:04They're on standby.
01:06What do you think? Are you short of small talk? I don't think so.
01:10I think that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
01:12OK.
01:13£35 for someone to tell you what pop culture is, if you need to ring them up.
01:18To brief you.
01:19Is this a real thing?
01:21It's so silly in the research department.
01:23Someone came on The Apprentice and told you their business was £35 an hour, telling people about pop culture.
01:28What would you and Sugar say?
01:30It happens.
01:32I'm going to this party, I don't know the people, but they're all, you know, very trendy young kids, the
01:37rest of it.
01:37Yeah.
01:37Can you please give me an update on what's going on?
01:40I think you should do this.
01:41You'd be the opposite of pop culture.
01:45You're of special interest is weird countries around the world and dictators.
01:49Exactly.
01:49If anyone needs to know anything about that, you can do a discount price, £30 an hour.
01:54Bring Nick Hewitt and find out what latest torture has been going on in South East.
01:58Nobody would pay me £35 an hour.
02:02I'll settle for £17.
02:05Who's here?
02:06We've got Liam Bastic back.
02:08Excellent.
02:09Good win.
02:11The man from Australia who became an Australian octo-champ.
02:16That's excellent.
02:17It's only six.
02:17And you've got a teapot to drag back to Australia.
02:21Is that the important thing?
02:22That is.
02:22My daughter won't let me back in the house without one.
02:24Anyway, you played very well yesterday.
02:26Now you're up against Peter Tarry, retired from Oxford, loves his Oxford United.
02:31Yes.
02:32Yeah?
02:32Yes.
02:33Go every Saturday?
02:34Yes, every home match, yes.
02:35And have a few beers afterwards.
02:37Lovely.
02:37To live in and around Oxford is a joyous thing.
02:39Just in a village just outside Oxford, I think, aren't you?
02:42Yes, called Botley, yes.
02:44Botley, yes, yes, I know that.
02:46Oh, right.
02:46On the A34, you pass through Botley.
02:49Yes, you do.
02:49Brilliant.
02:50Yep, yep.
02:50Well, look, good luck to you both.
02:51Big round of applause now for Peter and Liam.
02:58And over the corner, Susie, of course, joined once again by TV presenter, author and money-saving
03:04expert, Martin Lewis.
03:06Welcome back, Martin.
03:07Thank you for having me.
03:11Okay, Liam, no relaxing.
03:12Just because you've got a teapot, you've got to go home to Australia, back to Victoria,
03:17saying, I was an octo-champ in Britain too.
03:20No pressure, eh?
03:21Go on then, off you go.
03:23Hello, Rachel.
03:24Hi, Liam.
03:25I'll have a consonant to start, please.
03:27Start today with R.
03:28And another, please.
03:31L.
03:32And another.
03:34H.
03:35And a vowel.
03:37E.
03:38And another.
03:39I.
03:40And yet another.
03:41E.
03:43Creature of habit, I'll have a consonant, please.
03:45D.
03:46And another.
03:48S.
03:50And a consonant.
03:52And lastly, G.
03:55Stand by.
03:55H.
03:57H.
03:58H.
03:59H.
04:00T.
04:16H.
04:17H.
04:27Well, Liam, eight, I think.
04:29Peter, six.
04:30And your six is?
04:31Shield.
04:33Yes, Liam.
04:33I'm going to risk a re-shield.
04:36Erm, there's no re-shield, I'm afraid, Liam, sorry.
04:40Bad luck.
04:40Martin, what news?
04:42Yes, as has just happened here, I think you've been slayed,
04:45although it's a different spelling, to be fair,
04:47which wasn't something Susie relished.
04:50Two eights there, slayed and relished.
04:53Now then, six points for Peter.
04:55Now, and it's Peter's letters game.
04:58Off we go.
04:59Good afternoon, Rachel.
05:00Afternoon, Peter.
05:01Consonant, please.
05:03Start with R.
05:04Another, please.
05:07W.
05:08Vel.
05:10U.
05:11Vel.
05:12O.
05:13Vel.
05:14A.
05:15Consonant.
05:17T.
05:20Consonant.
05:22L.
05:24Vel.
05:25I.
05:29Consonant.
05:31And lastly, T.
05:33Stand by.
05:34OK.
06:05Peter.
06:06Six.
06:07Liam.
06:07Just five.
06:08And your five is?
06:09Ratio.
06:10Ratio.
06:11Peter.
06:11Taylor.
06:12And Taylor.
06:13Very nice.
06:14Yes.
06:15And the corner.
06:16There is an eight in there, and it's something I need to be as good as Susie at this.
06:20Oh, a tutorial.
06:22A tutorial.
06:28Liam.
06:29Liam.
06:30First numbers game of the day.
06:32Off we go.
06:33Thanks.
06:34One large and five small, please.
06:36Thank you, Liam.
06:37One from the top.
06:37And five little to start the day numbers-wise.
06:40And this first selection is four.
06:42Nine.
06:43One.
06:44Six.
06:45Two.
06:46And the big one, 100.
06:48And the target, 503.
06:51Five-oh-three.
06:52Five-oh-three.
06:53Five-oh-three.
06:55Five-oh-three.
07:02Five-oh-three.
07:02Five-oh-three.
07:03Five-oh-three.
07:04Five-oh-three.
07:04Five-oh-three.
07:05Five-oh-three.
07:05Five-oh-three.
07:06Five-oh-three.
07:07Five-oh-three.
07:08Five-oh-three.
07:08Five-oh-three.
07:08Five-oh-three.
07:09Five-oh-three.
07:09Five-oh-three.
07:09Five-oh-three.
07:09Five-oh-three.
07:10Five-oh-three.
07:11Five-oh-three.
07:18Five-oh-three.
07:23Liam.
07:245.03.
07:25Yes, Peter.
07:265.03.
07:27Off we go, Liam.
07:284 plus 1 is 5.
07:30It is.
07:31Times the 100 is 500.
07:33And 6 divided by 2 is 3.
07:35Gentle stop.
07:36And Peter.
07:37Exactly the same way.
07:39Yeah.
07:43So, Liam is off the blocks with 10 to Peter's 22 as we go into our first tea time teaser.
07:50Which is Liam Dunce.
07:53And the clue.
07:54Liam was such a dunce.
07:55He won first prize in the draw but forgot to collect it.
07:59Liam was such a dunce.
08:00He won first prize in the draw but he forgot to collect it.
08:20Welcome back.
08:21I left with the clue.
08:22Liam was such a dunce.
08:23He won first prize in the draw but forgot to collect it.
08:26And the answer to that is unclaimed.
08:31Unclaimed.
08:32So, 10 plays 22.
08:34Peter in the lead.
08:34Peter.
08:35Your letters came.
08:37Start with a consonant.
08:38Rachel, please.
08:39Thank you, Peter.
08:39K.
08:40Another, please.
08:43N.
08:43Vowel.
08:45E.
08:46Vowel.
08:47A.
08:49Consonant.
08:50R.
08:52Consonant.
08:54D.
08:55Vowel.
08:56I.
08:59Consonant.
09:00C.
09:03Final consonant.
09:05And lastly, B.
09:07Standby.
09:09Standby.
09:34Standby.
09:39Peter?
09:40Seven.
09:41Liam?
09:42Seven.
09:42Peter?
09:43Brained.
09:44Now then.
09:45Carbine.
09:46Yes, singular.
09:48Very good.
09:49And in the corner, Susie and Martin?
09:52Just sevens for us, actually.
09:53The only other one we had was cabined.
09:5629 to 17.
09:57Liam, off we go.
09:59Letters game.
10:00May I have a consonant?
10:01You may.
10:02Thank you, Liam.
10:03V?
10:03And another, please.
10:05P?
10:05And another.
10:07R?
10:08And a vowel.
10:09E?
10:10And a vowel.
10:12O?
10:13And a vowel.
10:14A?
10:15And a consonant.
10:16C?
10:17And another consonant.
10:19N?
10:21And another consonant, please.
10:23And lastly, R.
10:25Counter.
10:26We are spAN конф Jews in America.
10:27We are spanned in the room.
10:30We are spanned in the room.
10:35We are spanned in the room.
10:57Yes, Liam.
10:58Seven.
10:59Peter?
10:59I'll try a seven.
11:01Liam?
11:01Pranced.
11:02Off we go, Peter.
11:03Over cap.
11:04OK, there's no D for pranced, unfortunately, Liam, sorry.
11:09And over cap is not either.
11:12Over cap or overlap, but no over cap.
11:14Sorry, Peter.
11:17Disappointing.
11:17Martin, what have we got?
11:18There is a seven in there, which is one of the reasons I talk so quickly
11:22when I do many of my slots to make sure that it doesn't happen.
11:25Overran.
11:26Overran is a seven.
11:28Susie?
11:29No, that's really good for seven.
11:30Overran.
11:3129 to 17.
11:33Peter, it's your numbers game now.
11:35Two large and four small, Rachel, please.
11:37Thank you, Peter.
11:38Two from the top four or not.
11:39And these four little ones are seven, ten, ten, and three,
11:46and a big two, one hundred and twenty-five.
11:49And this time, the target, five, five, three.
11:52Five, hundred and fifty-three.
11:57We'll be back.
12:07MUSIC CONTINUES
12:25Peter. Sorry, nothing.
12:27Liam.
12:28Five, five, five.
12:30Two away. Off we go.
12:33100 minus 25 is 75.
12:35Yes.
12:36Times seven is 525.
12:39It is.
12:40Three times ten is 30.
12:41Yes.
12:42And that gets you two away.
12:44Good, but not quite perfect.
12:46For that, we turn to Rachel.
12:47Is it possible, Rachel?
12:48Five, five, three?
12:49Yes, Nick.
12:50A couple of ways.
12:50If you start the same way as Liam,
12:52so 100 minus 25 is 75,
12:55then 10 divided by 10 is 1,
12:58plus 3 is 4.
13:00Add that to the 75 for 79 and times that by 7 and you get 5, 5, 3.
13:05Excellent.
13:08That's the way, 5, 5, 3 also, of course, it's the way to catch up, Liam.
13:1324 now to Peter's 29 as we switch to Martin Lewis.
13:19Martin, what have you got for us today?
13:20Now, this visit, I tend to be telling you tales of consumer rights and financial issues,
13:26but when I used to come on here, I would do questions and quizzes,
13:29and I don't want you to feel you've missed out.
13:30This one's about numbers, so, Rachel, it has to be you.
13:34This is actually a question I used to ask people when I interviewed them for money analyst jobs.
13:40Right.
13:40And I was always more interested in how they worked it out than being able to do the numbers.
13:44With you, I think I'm more interested in doing the numbers than how they worked it out.
13:47So, the question was very simple.
13:49If you saw a loan advertised at £5,000,
13:54at 2.9% interest, the cheapest loan on the market as we do this,
13:58for five years, what would the total repayment be roughly?
14:05Let me help you through it.
14:07So, we're estimating, so we'll call 2.9% interest 3%.
14:11So, what's 3% of £5,000?
14:14£150.
14:14And you do it over five years?
14:16£750, if you can do that.
14:17And then, because you start with a £5,000 debt and you end with zero,
14:21you halve it to give you a rough estimate of how it would be.
14:24So, halve £750.
14:25£375.
14:26And add the £5,000 on and you get £5,375,
14:30which is the first answer I would hope they would come up with.
14:33And then, so, your answer is?
14:36My answer, all by myself.
14:39£5,375.
14:40That's incorrect.
14:43The actual answer, if you do that on a calculator, is £5,370,
14:47which shows you that that's good.
14:49Because the problem with this is,
14:51and whenever you see a loan advertised,
14:53every loan these days is advertised as 2.9% representative APR.
14:58And that little word representative is the one that we all have to watch for.
15:03Because what that means is only 51% of accepted applicants need to be given the advertised rate.
15:11Yes, shock on all your faces.
15:13The rest don't have to be.
15:15And there is no cap.
15:17So, you can advertise the cheapest loan at the market at 2.9%.
15:21The only way people can find out what rate they get is to apply,
15:24which puts a small mark on your credit file.
15:27When you do apply, they then say,
15:29we're charging you 20%.
15:31At which point you can say, I don't want it,
15:33which is fine,
15:34but you've still got that mark on your credit file.
15:36So, the answer really is,
15:38I don't know, I wouldn't know what it would be.
15:40The way to work out once you know your APR is what we did earlier.
15:42But actually, when you see a loan advertised,
15:45don't always trust that's the rate you'll get,
15:47even if you're accepted.
15:49Oh, very good.
15:54This little mark on your credit card,
15:57what does that mean?
15:59And how deleterious is it, your credit rating?
16:03So, every application that has a hard search,
16:05there's a thing called a soft search as well,
16:07that has a hard search,
16:08leaves a mark on your credit file.
16:10One in its own right doesn't mean much.
16:12And they only last a year.
16:13It's not like if you do something negative,
16:15that stays on for six years.
16:17But if you have lots of applications in a short space of time,
16:21many companies, when you apply for credit,
16:23will see that as a negative sign that you're desperate for credit,
16:26and that can have an impact on future applications.
16:29So, in fact, the loan system I was just talking about
16:32is in many ways anti-shopping around,
16:33because if you apply for a loan, you get a high rate,
16:36you say, I don't want it, you apply elsewhere,
16:37they do the same thing, you say, I don't want it.
16:39Now you've got two marks on your file in a short space of time,
16:42and that will start to hit your ability to get cheap loans elsewhere.
16:45I've been campaigning on it for years,
16:47it's one of those I haven't won.
16:48Yet.
16:49Yet.
16:49That really is news to me.
16:51Thank you very much, Martin.
16:53So, 29th is 24,
16:55Peter's still in the lead,
16:57and it's Liam's letters game.
17:00May I have a consonant, please?
17:01You may, thank you, Liam.
17:03S.
17:04And another.
17:06D.
17:06E.
17:07And a vowel, just to mix it up.
17:09E.
17:10And a consonant, please.
17:12J.
17:13And a vowel.
17:16I.
17:17And another vowel.
17:19A.
17:20And a consonant.
17:22M.
17:23And another consonant.
17:26S.
17:28And another consonant.
17:30And the last one.
17:31N.
17:32Stand by.
17:34And another consonant.
17:35And another consonant.
17:51And another consonant.
17:52And another consonant.
17:52And another consonant.
17:52And another consonant.
17:53And another consonant.
17:54And another consonant.
18:03Well, Liam?
18:04Six.
18:05Peter?
18:06Seven.
18:07Mmm, Liam.
18:08Must.
18:09Now, Peter?
18:10Maidens.
18:12Maidens.
18:13Very good.
18:14Building up here, Peter, too.
18:1536, place 24, as we turn to Martin and Susie.
18:19Martin?
18:19It is madness, seven, that there's an eight in there.
18:23Yeah, Susie?
18:24Er, yes, jasmines are there.
18:27You can get different types of the jazz, beautiful jasmine, so jasmines.
18:30We'll give you eight.
18:32Thank you, Susie.
18:35Now, Peter, your letters game, off we go.
18:39Consonant, Rachel, please.
18:40Thank you, Peter.
18:42F.
18:44Consonant.
18:45W.
18:47Consonant.
18:49M.
18:50Vowel.
18:51O.
18:52Vowel.
18:54E.
18:56Consonant.
18:58G.
18:59Vowel.
19:01U.
19:04Consonant.
19:05S.
19:08And a final vowel.
19:10And a final I.
19:12And here's the countdown clock.
19:49MUSIC CONTINUES
19:52Can we beat five or match it or what?
19:54There is a six in there. No reference, isn't it? It's fogies.
19:58Fogies.
19:59Interestingly, I saw something that you don't see often,
20:02which is Susie self-disqualifying during that.
20:05Yes, I got excited. One of my favourite words is uggsum.
20:09You'll find in the OED to ugg something was to really dread it,
20:12and something uggsum is really repellent and horrible,
20:14but it's not in this dictionary, sadly.
20:16But it's in another one somewhere?
20:17It's in historical dictionaries, yes, so I'll campaign to bring it back.
20:21Please do.
20:21Thank you. Thanks, Martin.
20:2341 plays 29.
20:25Liam, your numbers game. Off we go.
20:27Well, I'll do something different this time.
20:29I'll have five small and one large, please.
20:30Five small and one large.
20:32See if it makes a difference.
20:33Thank you, Liam.
20:34And these five small ones are nine, seven, one, six, two.
20:41And the big one, 50.
20:43And this target, 695.
20:46Six, nine, five.
20:48Six, nine, five.
21:18Liam. 695. 695. Peter. 695. Off we go, Liam. 7 times 2 is 14. Yep. Times 50 is 700. 700.
21:316 minus 1 is 5. Yep. And subtract. Lovely. 695. And Peter. Exactly the same way. There we go. Show
21:38it to Liam. And we'll move on.
21:42We'll move on. 51 to 39 in Peter's favour. We go to our second teatime teaser, which is Branch Mew.
21:50And the clue, he won't get any time on the pitch today. He's destined to do this for the whole
21:55match.
21:56He won't get any time on the pitch today. He's destined to do this for the whole match.
22:16Welcome back. I left with the clue, he won't get any time on the pitch today. He's destined to do
22:21this for the whole match.
22:23He's destined to bench warm. One word. Bench warm. 51 plays 39. And it's Peter's letters game now. Thank you.
22:32Consonant, Rachel. Thank you, Peter. V.
22:35Vel.
22:37O.
22:38Vel.
22:40E.
22:41Consonant.
22:42S.
22:44Consonant.
22:45M.
22:47Vel.
22:48A.
22:50Consonant.
22:52N.
22:54Consonant.
22:55X.
22:57And a final consonant.
22:59And a final S.
23:01Stand by.
23:02Consonant.
23:03Consonant.
23:06Consonant.
23:10Consonant.
23:18Consonant.
23:19Consonant.
23:19Consonant.
23:19Consonant.
23:20Consonant.
23:20Consonant.
23:33Peter. Five. Five. Liam. Six. Peter. Moves. And Masons. Yeah. Very good. Very good. Martin and Susie. Martin. I had
23:44another six, which was mavens. I love that word. Mavens. Experts.
23:50There is seven there. Probably wouldn't want to meet one. Nosemas. N-O-S-E-M-A-S. And they
23:57are microscopic, parasitic things that chiefly affect insects. So they can cause dysentery, apparently, in honeybees. Heaven forbid. Not very
24:08nice. Nosemas. They're protozoans rather than things. Thank you. Now, 51 to 45. Closing up there, Liam. Well done. And
24:16now it's your letters game. Vowel, please.
24:19Thank you, Liam. O. And a consonant. T. And another consonant. C. And another consonant, please. S. And another vowel.
24:32E. And another vowel. U. And a consonant. T. Another consonant, please. R. And a consonant. And lastly, N. Stand
24:48by.
24:49N. Stand by.
25:19Well, Liam. Eight not written down. Peter. Eight. Liam. Counters. And? Canters. There we go. Any more eights? Yeah, Constru
25:33as well was in there. Did you have another eight? Just recounts. So, yes, quite a few eights. 59 plays
25:3953, six points in it. Susie, give them a rest. What have you got for us by way of your
25:44origins of words today?
25:45A question from David Markland, who asks why the musical instruments we call recorders go by that name. And I
25:53don't know if Sapphire has started to play the recorder yet, but it's a classic instrument, isn't it, for musical
25:58beginners, which really enjoyed a revival in sort of the early 20th century.
26:04And it actually comes from a really, really old sense of record that has nothing to do with what we
26:09would think of today. It's to practice a tune.
26:12And the whole idea was to memorize something by heart so you could then go on to practice it because
26:18to record was once all about the heart.
26:21It's linked to cardiac, accord, discord, courage, the seat of the heart, because the heart itself was seen as the
26:28seat of memory, really, where you would just retain everything.
26:33Rather than the brain, it was definitely seen as the heart where information would be stored in your body.
26:38And so to record something was to learn it by heart, to take it to your heart.
26:43And you'll find it sort of from about 1,200 in English, meaning all of those different things.
26:49And as I say, hearts are everywhere in English, even when you don't expect them.
26:52Cordials will want tonics for the heart, so they're all linked.
26:56But it made me also think about the very first meaning of recorder, which wasn't a musical instrument, but it
27:02was the chief legal officer of a city.
27:04So somebody who would go around and be a witness, if you like, to civic events, might be involved in
27:11collecting taxes, headcounts, that kind of thing.
27:14That was the first recorder.
27:16And one colleague of this first recorder that you might not think about these days was a scavenger, believe it
27:22or not.
27:22And a scavenger was somebody who collected scavenge.
27:24And that was a toll on merchants, a tax, really, for goods that were offered for sale in a town
27:31or a city.
27:32So they were essentially tax collectors.
27:34And later on, their tasks became a little bit more menial, so they kept the streets clean.
27:39That was their main job.
27:40And it was from there that we get the idea of somebody who collects anything that's kind of been discarded
27:45that might somehow be of value.
27:48So recorders, in that sense, and scavengers, once in medieval cities, went hand in hand.
28:00Excellent.
28:00Thank you, Susie.
28:02Thank you, Susie.
28:0359 plays 53.
28:04Peter, let us game.
28:06Start with a consonant, Rachel.
28:08Thank you, Peter.
28:09C.
28:10Another.
28:11N.
28:13Another.
28:14T.
28:15Vowel.
28:17I.
28:18Vowel.
28:19O.
28:20Vowel.
28:22E.
28:24Consonant.
28:25G.
28:27Consonant.
28:28R.
28:31Consonant.
28:32And lastly, T.
28:34Stand by.
29:06Peter.
29:07Six.
29:08And Liam.
29:09Seven.
29:10Peter.
29:10Notice.
29:11Liam.
29:12Rotting.
29:13Rotting, yes.
29:14Silly fine.
29:15Yes, sir.
29:16And in the corner.
29:18Yeah, there is an eight in there, gerontic, which is to do with old age, I presume.
29:24It is, yes.
29:25The same link as geriatric, obviously.
29:28So it's all to do with senescence, which is a slightly more beautiful word for ageing, senescence.
29:33Nice.
29:39And senescence, I think, is an old man, isn't it?
29:41It was, yes.
29:41Senescence is all part of the same deal.
29:43Hence the senescence.
29:44They were originally all old men.
29:47Yeah.
29:47Yeah.
29:48Mmm.
29:49Liam, look.
29:50You've done it.
29:51One point ahead now.
29:52Peter, have a care.
29:53And it's Liam's letters game.
29:56Consonant, please.
29:57Thank you, Liam.
29:58L.
30:00And another consonant.
30:02T.
30:03And another.
30:05D.
30:06And a vowel, please.
30:07A.
30:08And another vowel.
30:09O.
30:10And another vowel.
30:12I.
30:12And a consonant.
30:15R.
30:16And another consonant.
30:18P.
30:20You know what, I'll have a vowel, please.
30:21And the last one.
30:23A.
30:24It's going by.
30:25It's going by.
30:53It's going by.
30:55It's going by.
30:55Liam. A rubbish five. Peter. Six. Liam. Ratio. Yes, Peter. Tripod. Well, it's possible, Peter, yes. Nice.
31:06Peter's back in the lead by five points. Martin, what have you got? There were a few sevens in there
31:11as well.
31:12Partial. Yes. Partial. And then one I've not heard of. It's a bit of a countdown favourite, this.
31:19It's a parotid gland, which is one of the salivary glands. Yeah. That could be another seven.
31:25And, yeah, that was about it. Sevens for us. Thank you. Thank you.
31:28As I say, Peter's now back in the lead 65 to 60 as we go into final numbers game for
31:34you, Peter.
31:36Two large, four small, I shall please. Thank you, Peter. Last chance to avoid that crucial conundrum.
31:41Yes. Liam's hoping you don't. Final numbers are 10, 9, 5, 2, 50 and 100. And the target, 589.
31:54589. 589.
32:26Well, Peter?
32:27Five, nine, zero.
32:29Liam?
32:30Five, ninety.
32:32So, Peter?
32:33Five times one hundred is five hundred.
32:36Yep.
32:36Ten, nine to ninety had it on.
32:39One away.
32:39Liam?
32:40Same way.
32:42There you go.
32:43And now, five, eight, nine.
32:45Rachel?
32:46Well, if I start by saying two plus nine is eleven, it might fall out because you can say
32:52fifty times ten is five hundred.
32:55Add the one hundred and take that eleven for five, eight, nine.
32:58Well done.
32:59Thank you, Rachel.
33:00Five, eight, nine.
33:01That's the way to do it.
33:02So, here we go.
33:04Seven to two to sixty-seven means only one thing.
33:09We've got a crucial countdown conundrum.
33:13Things on buzzers?
33:14Good luck to you both.
33:15Let's roll today's crucial countdown conundrum.
33:26Liam?
33:28Thriftier?
33:29Thriftier.
33:30Let's see whether you're right.
33:32Yes, sir.
33:40You came through.
33:43Not without a struggle.
33:44Oh, Peter, Tarry, you led him a merry dance.
33:47You really did.
33:48You really did.
33:50Down to a conundrum.
33:51Yes, yes.
33:52Well, you played really well.
33:53Thanks very much.
33:54You had an Australian octo-champ on the ropes there.
33:57You take this goodie bag back to Oxford.
34:00Back to Botley with our very best wishes.
34:01Thank you very much for coming.
34:04I was a little bit close to the mark, wasn't it?
34:07Yes.
34:07No, you played well and I don't think I deserved that.
34:09Well, you came through.
34:11We'll see you tomorrow.
34:12Well done.
34:12Well done, Liam.
34:13See you both tomorrow, Martin and Susie, too, of course.
34:17Yeah, see you then.
34:17See you then.
34:18And Rachel.
34:19The skin of Liam's teeth there.
34:20I think if he's a cat, that's one life down.
34:22You're right.
34:23See you tomorrow.
34:24See you then.
34:24Join us then.
34:25Same time, same place.
34:26You'll be sure of it.
34:26A very good afternoon.
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