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00:31Hello, everybody. Welcome to Countdown this Wednesday afternoon.
00:35My daytime friends throughout the years, do not be a gambler and just stay with us every step of the
00:41way today.
00:42As we introduce our lady, Rachel Riley, still a lady, aren't you?
00:45Oh, I'll take it. I'll take it. That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
00:48Well, it was my way to crowbar in yet another Kenny Rogers song title into that intro.
00:55The late, great Kenny Rogers, born in this day in 1938, widely successful.
01:01Loads of big sing-along hits, but actually unbelievable storytellers.
01:06Some of the lyrics, very, very dark. Ruby, don't take your love to town.
01:11Lucille, coward of the county.
01:13So we sort of combined that really quite dark storytelling with mainstream success.
01:17But I'm guessing... Yeah.
01:19I know what you're going to say, and it's four words.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Yeah. Islands in the stream, right?
01:25Islands in the stream. I know. I mean, a lot of countries just hasn't translated over here, I would say.
01:30But that one, obviously, everybody knows Dolly Parton and can sing it all.
01:34And it's, you know, it's the test of time.
01:35Right, listen, talking to duettes, we've got quite one going on over in Dictionary Corner this week.
01:40Our guardian of the dictionary, Susie Dent, and our partner all this week, the comedian, Ria Lina.
01:47Yes.
01:48Do you like a bit of karaoke? Do you like a bit of duette in it, the karaoke? Is that
01:51for you?
01:52I love karaoke. I love singing. I'm Filipino, though. You have to.
01:55You come out, it's a requirement to sing.
02:00Is it on the curriculum, the karaoke?
02:02No, no, no. You come out, and they give you the voice box, and they go, off you go, shower,
02:08church, karaoke.
02:10Shower, church, karaoke. That's how you start. Brilliant.
02:13Well, listen, Rob Barkas has been absolutely fantastic so far.
02:16Six wins could be our second octal champ of the series.
02:20Now, you, on the music tilt, left until about 10 minutes ago to tell me you'd seen Prince live 13
02:26times.
02:27Yeah, my absolute hero.
02:29I first saw him in 1982 or 83, and I've seen him many, many times from Wembley, the O2 Arena,
02:37the NEC, as well.
02:40So, four times the NEC in a row, four nights in a row.
02:43Wow.
02:44I just absolutely love his music.
02:46Nobody like him?
02:47No.
02:48Nobody like him?
02:49Gavin Hodgson's more into his folk and bluegrass, is that right, my friend?
02:52A little bit, yes.
02:52Who would you recommend? Who am I listening to on the way home from Countdown today?
02:56So, I'd recommend a band called The Dead South.
02:59The Dead South. Now, you're from Hull, which is home to the beautiful south, so is your rule just listening
03:04to bands with South in the title?
03:06Yeah, and I can't think of any more, though, to continue that joke, but yeah, that seems to be the
03:10case.
03:10Right, OK. Yeah, you'd need a little time, wouldn't you?
03:12Right, good luck to Gavin and Rob.
03:15APPLAUSE
03:17Rob, Irish, can I have a consonant, please?
03:20Thank you, Rob. Start today with N.
03:22And another, please.
03:23T.
03:25And a third.
03:26R.
03:27And a vowel.
03:29E.
03:29And again, please.
03:31A.
03:31And again.
03:32O.
03:34And a consonant, please.
03:36G.
03:37And a vowel.
03:39E.
03:40And another vowel.
03:42And lastly, O.
03:45At home and in the studio.
03:46Let's play Kinkedown.
03:48MUSIC PLAYS
04:17Rob.
04:19Seven.
04:20And for you, Gavin?
04:22I'll risk a seven.
04:23Risk a seven.
04:24Both written down, yes?
04:25Yeah.
04:25Yes.
04:26Rob.
04:27Grantee.
04:28A grantee.
04:29Gavin.
04:30Grayton.
04:31Right, busy start for Susie.
04:33Yeah, absolutely.
04:34Grayton, it's quite a literary word, but to raise in excellence or power, that's absolutely brilliant.
04:41And grantee, also fine.
04:43That's somebody to whom a grantee's made.
04:44Yes?
04:45Yeah.
04:46Fantastic.
04:47Seven points each.
04:48Did we squeeze anything else out of those letters?
04:50A couple more sevens.
04:52Rootage.
04:53Yeah.
04:54And, depending on where you're from, oregano.
04:57Oregano.
04:58Oregano.
04:59You better watch yourself.
05:00We have a good relationship this week, but if you come at us with your oregano on sidewalks,
05:05we're going to have to have a serious conversation.
05:07Yeah.
05:07So, how would you say it?
05:09Well, look, I never assume, because we don't know, because sometimes we say it's an Americanisation,
05:15it's not correct pronunciation, no, original pronunciation.
05:19Oregano or oregano?
05:20It was from Spanish, so I think it did come to us, actually, from the US, and the dictionary
05:25gives both.
05:26Okay.
05:27Happily.
05:28Sidewalk, however, was what we used to call a pavement.
05:30Yes.
05:31Yes.
05:31So, we did sidewalk first.
05:32We did.
05:32There you go.
05:33Yeah.
05:33We're still friends.
05:34Let's move on.
05:35More letters.
05:36Gavin.
05:36A consonant, please.
05:38Thank you, Gavin.
05:39S.
05:40And another, please.
05:42D.
05:43And a third, please.
05:45C.
05:46A vowel.
05:47U.
05:49Another vowel.
05:50A.
05:51A consonant.
05:54S.
05:55A vowel.
05:57I.
05:58A consonant.
06:00R.
06:02And a vowel, please.
06:04And lastly, E.
06:06And 30 seconds.
06:08BELL RINGS
06:38Give me a number, Gavin.
06:40A six.
06:41Rob?
06:41Seven.
06:42Okay, the six, Gavin.
06:44It caused.
06:45What have you got there, Bargis?
06:46Saucer.
06:47A willow.
06:48Very nice.
06:49Yes, absolutely fine for seven.
06:50Saucer, a word that entered the dictionary roundabout at the time of the Carry On movies, I assume.
06:55It's that type of word, isn't it?
06:56It is that type of word, but surprisingly, it's also a noun.
07:00I know you love your sauces, don't you?
07:02So, a chef that makes sauces is a saucier, and you can add the S on, so you can make
07:06it an 8 with that.
07:08What a dream job that is.
07:09I know, you'd love that one.
07:10That'd be great.
07:11Two letters rounds out of the way.
07:13Let's do our first numbers, Rob.
07:14One large and five small, please, Rachel.
07:16Your usual.
07:17One from the top and five little ones.
07:20Coming up, first numbers of the day.
07:22Ten, five, six, nine, nine, and 75.
07:28And the target, 251.
07:30251.
07:31Numbers up.
08:00Two, three, four, five, six, nine, and 75.
08:01Two, five, one, the target.
08:05Rob?
08:06250.
08:07One away.
08:08Chance, Gavin?
08:09249.
08:11Oh, two away, Rob.
08:13Sneaking at seven points.
08:14Ten plus nine plus six.
08:16Ten plus nine plus six, 25.
08:19And I've made a mistake.
08:21Oh.
08:22So, let's tie it up, Gavin.
08:25Nine minus six is three.
08:27Nine minus six, three.
08:29Times 75.
08:31225.
08:31225.
08:33Add the nine.
08:34The second nine.
08:36Add the five.
08:37And add the ten.
08:38And the ten, which I haven't got room for, but you can still add on.
08:41Yes.
08:42Well done.
08:42249.
08:43All right.
08:44Lucky we've got the right-hand side of the board, our rich, for 251.
08:48Yes.
08:48And you start the same way as Gavin.
08:49Nine minus six is three.
08:52Before you times it by 75, add the ten.
08:54And that gets you to 255.
08:57And then you have a second five.
08:59Second nine minus the five for four.
09:01Two, five, one.
09:02Lovely.
09:04Right.
09:05We have a game.
09:0614 points each.
09:07First tea time teaser of this midweek countdown.
09:10Combs a bit.
09:11Combs a bit.
09:12He combs his hair a bit.
09:13It's overblown and almost shaggy.
09:16He combs his hair a bit.
09:17It's overblown and almost shaggy.
09:35Welcome back.
09:36He combs his hair a bit.
09:37It's overblown and almost shaggy.
09:40Shaggy's the musical reference.
09:41Bit of a musical theme today because he did Mr. Bombastic, which Rachel during the break treated us to a
09:47rendition of.
09:48That's karaoke you never need to hear again.
09:52Bombastic is what it is.
09:53Yeah, I'd use it more as like braggadocious and really big.
09:58Yeah, it is big.
09:59Yeah, so it's kind of overinflated, I suppose.
10:01And bombast was padding that was used in jackets.
10:05So in medieval times they pad themselves out and literally make themselves look bigger.
10:08That's where it comes from.
10:09Little mini origins of words.
10:10Love it.
10:1114 points each.
10:12Look at that, Gavin.
10:13The numbers round should give you all the confidence you need as we get back to the letters.
10:17Consonant, please.
10:18Thank you, Gavin.
10:19T.
10:20Another one, please.
10:22M.
10:23And a third.
10:25L.
10:26Vowel.
10:27I.
10:29Second, please.
10:30E.
10:31T.
10:32A consonant.
10:33T.
10:36T.
10:36A vowel.
10:38O.
10:39A consonant.
10:40G.
10:42And a consonant, please.
10:45And lastly, V.
10:46Thanks, Rachel.
11:19Gavin.
11:20Just a four.
11:21Four there.
11:21Tricky round for you, Rob.
11:23Six.
11:24And a six.
11:25All right, Gavin.
11:26Time.
11:27T-I-M-E.
11:28Yeah, and Rob.
11:30Motive.
11:31And motive.
11:32You like your motive.
11:34Very good indeed.
11:35Well done.
11:36You get your six points.
11:37What can we add to that, Ria?
11:38A few more sixes.
11:40You had motive.
11:41We had motile.
11:42Yeah.
11:43Violet.
11:44Yeah.
11:44Gimlet.
11:46And all the sixes.
11:47Yes.
11:48Sixes for us.
11:49All right.
11:50Get you back in the lead, though, champ, and off we go.
11:53Can I have a consonant, please?
11:54Thank you, Rob.
11:55R.
11:56And again.
11:58S.
11:59And another, please.
12:01C.
12:02And a vowel.
12:03U.
12:04And another.
12:05A.
12:06And another.
12:08O.
12:08And a consonant, please.
12:11M.
12:13And another.
12:15K.
12:17Erm, and a vowel, please.
12:20Lastly, U.
12:23And half a minute.
12:27I'll see you next time.
12:28I'll see you next time.
12:29I'll see you next time.
12:33Bye-bye.
12:34Bye-bye.
12:36Bye-bye.
12:37Bye-bye.
12:38Bye-bye.
12:39Bye-bye.
12:39Bye-bye.
12:46Bye-bye.
12:55Rob?
12:56Six.
12:57And Gavin?
12:58Five.
12:59Yeah, those sixes kill you, don't they?
13:01In those difficult letters.
13:02Gavin, what's the five?
13:03Scrum.
13:04And the six?
13:05Croaks.
13:06And croaks.
13:07Very good, yes.
13:09Right, what else do we have in Dictionary Corner?
13:11More sixes.
13:13Yeah.
13:13I can't do chilli, so I'm always ordering the kormas.
13:17And a personal favourite word of mine, but that's because I'm a biologist, mucosa.
13:22Mucosa, is that connected to the mucus?
13:24Yes, mucous membranes, yeah.
13:26OK, 2614, not to be sniffed at.
13:29Let's get more numbers, Gavin.
13:31One large and five small, please.
13:33Thank you, Gavin.
13:34One big five knots.
13:36Same selection again, but this time the numbers are 9, 4, 8, 10, 9, and the large one, 25.
13:44And the target, 306.
13:48306, numbers up.
13:51MUSIC PLAYS
14:193, 06, pushing the clock.
14:21please, Gavin? Three or nine. Three away. Rob? Three or six. For the ten points? 25 plus nine.
14:29Colin's going to be kicking himself. 34. Times nine. 306. For goodness sake. Well done.
14:37Right. Ria, yesterday you were telling us about getting heckled live at the Apollo,
14:42not once but twice. Although one of them was someone telling you, I love you. And that connection
14:46with the audience, a very different connection you're going to talk about today that you made
14:49with an audience member. Yes, it was a number of years ago. And I just finished actually a cabaret
14:55show. I used to do a little bit of cabaret. And he comes up to me, bounds up to me,
15:00and immediately starts talking at me. Just a barrage of words about various things. And at some
15:08point he pauses and he stops and he goes, oh, I am so sorry. Do you not realize you're autistic?
15:14And I went, I'm sorry, what? First of all, did you enjoy the show?
15:19And it turns out that he himself is autistic and we're still friends to this day.
15:23But he, he had used what we call ADAR. There's something that autistics have called a bit,
15:28a little bit of an ADAR. And he, and he said, it was just so obvious to me. I couldn't
15:32believe
15:32that you didn't know that you were, but I'd already begun to suspect at that point that I was,
15:37it wasn't something that you talk about in women. And it certainly wasn't, you know, wasn't at all in,
15:42in girls, but it just wasn't a word when I was growing up at all.
15:45And I'd already started to suspect. And so that sort of prompted me to go
15:48to the GP and say, excuse me, but could all these things actually mean something? And lo and behold,
15:54it turns out that I am very much autistic. And I mean, there were clues. My mother, as I told
15:59you
15:59on Monday, is a physicist and a computer programmer. So if she is not on the spectrum, she is definitely
16:03spectrum adjacent. I will tell you that. But there were clues. And, and, and that's how I found out
16:09that I was autistic, diagnosed by another autistic man in the audience.
16:12You make such a good point. I mean, I grew up in the eighties. The word autism wasn't used.
16:17Tell me, how long did it take you to get diagnosed?
16:20Oh, how, how long have we got? I mean, I mean, especially again, for women, I was diagnosed
16:25with depression. I was diagnosed with just having issues with strangers and they put me in group
16:30therapy for that. There were so many different paths that you go down where you go, oh, no,
16:35it must be this or it must be that. Or here, have a pill. And you go, you know, but
16:40I, I'd done,
16:41I'd done my reading. And it's funny that funny. We like a bit of reading. We like a bit of
16:46research.
16:47And so I said, no, that's not quite right. And here's why. And we just kept pushing and pushing
16:50until eventually they went, oh, yeah, actually, yeah, you are.
16:54A lot of people will relate to that, Rhea, you telling that story. Thank you so much.
17:02Rob Barkas, our champion. Not comfortable yet today. Let me tell you, sir, more letters.
17:07Sort of the consonant, please. Thank you, Rob. D. And another. P. And again, please.
17:15R. And a vowel. E. And another. A. And a third. I. And a consonant, please. G.
17:26E. And another. Q. And another consonant, please. Lastly, N. And start the clock.
17:37E. And another.
18:01MUSIC PLAYS
18:08Rob? Seven.
18:09Yeah, Gavin? Seven. Yes, go ahead, Rob.
18:12Pranged. Oh, pranged. And Gavin?
18:16Reaping. Yes.
18:17The I-N-G helps for reaping. I think we'll get more sevens.
18:22Pranged. Yes, that's what we had.
18:24It's a nice word, pranged. Good stuff.
18:26More letters, Gavin? A consonant, please.
18:29Thank you, Gavin. T. And another.
18:32W. And a third.
18:35G. And a vowel.
18:38U. And another.
18:40O. And a consonant.
18:43L. And a consonant.
18:46R. And a vowel.
18:49E.
18:51A consonant, please.
18:53Lastly, F.
18:55And here we go.
19:24MUSIC CONTINUES
19:27Gav, can I call you Gav?
19:29You can. Thank you, Gav.
19:31Six. Can I call you Robert?
19:33No. OK, Rob?
19:35Seven. The six is?
19:37Flower. And the seven?
19:39Flouter.
19:41Erm... Sorry, flout, obviously, there, but not the agent in on.
19:44I'm sorry, Rob. Really?
19:46Yeah, that's... What did you have?
19:49I should have got for froglet.
19:50Aww. A baby frog?
19:52We've had froglet before, yes.
19:54It's a baby frog or a small kind of frog.
19:56Wow, that'll stick in your throat, not going for that.
19:59Anything else, Ria?
20:00Outgrew, also for seven.
20:02Outgrew. Rub it in. Rub it in to Rob, that's what I like to say.
20:0643-27, the points, yours there, Gav.
20:08But we're switching back to numbers, and Rob.
20:11Can I have one large and five small, please?
20:13Thank you, Rob. We don't need to ask anyone.
20:15One large, five little coming up this time.
20:17Five smalls.
20:18Nine, one, six, eight and five.
20:22And the big one, 25, with the target...
20:26281.
20:27281. Numbers up.
20:29302.
20:30Flightrown.
20:35302.
20:35202.
20:35404.
20:42.لكchip.
20:42608. 463.
20:43593.
20:57656.
20:59281. Rob Barkas. 282.
21:02One away. Gavin? No, I've lost it.
21:05Lost it. Wow. Rob, off you go for seven.
21:08Six plus five is 11. Six plus five, 11.
21:11Times 25.
21:13Sorry, 275.
21:14And eight minus one.
21:16Eight, one, four, one. Above, 282.
21:18You get seven points. You get out of jail there. Off you go, Rach.
21:21Yes. If you say five minus one is four,
21:25eight divided by four is two,
21:27add that to nine for 11.
21:29And then again, you can times by 25, 275
21:32with a six in your back pocket.
21:34281.
21:37Six in the back pocket.
21:39Let's get her second tea time teaser.
21:41Rise wanes.
21:43Rise wanes.
21:44As soon as she rises, she starts to wane.
21:46It's that Monday morning feeling.
21:49As soon as she rises, she starts to wane.
21:51It's that Monday morning feeling.
22:10That would be weariness.
22:15Weariness.
22:16Well, listen, Rob's on 50 points.
22:18Six wins in his back pocket.
22:19645 points coming into today.
22:22But Gavin's sitting on 27.
22:25So just 23 points.
22:27That is very possible, Gavin, as we get these letters.
22:30Consonant, please.
22:31Thank you, Gavin.
22:32H.
22:33And another.
22:35R.
22:36And another.
22:47And a consonant, please.
22:55And lastly, L.
22:57And good luck.
23:28Gavin.
23:29A six.
23:30Ooh, Rob.
23:32I'll stick with the safe seven then.
23:34OK.
23:35Gavin.
23:36Eh, birth.
23:38OK, the seven first, Rob.
23:40Tumbler.
23:40Tumbler, all right, yes.
23:41And we're raising the glass to maybe an eight or a nine.
23:44What was it?
23:45Hurtable.
23:46Hurtable.
23:46Oh, it's a very good guess.
23:48But it's not in.
23:50Right decision.
23:51Right decision for sure.
23:53All right, what do we have, Rhea?
23:54Anything above a seven?
23:55Well, that certainly makes you humbler.
23:58Nothing above a seven.
24:00It's all a lot of blather, isn't it?
24:03Blather and humbler.
24:04Yes.
24:05Nice.
24:05Right, let's do it then.
24:07Letters.
24:08Rob.
24:08Have a consonant, please.
24:10Thank you, Rob.
24:10T.
24:11And again.
24:13N.
24:14And another, please.
24:16R.
24:17And a vowel, please.
24:19U.
24:20And again.
24:21E.
24:22And again.
24:23U.
24:25And a consonant, please.
24:27H.
24:29And another.
24:30D.
24:32And finish with a vowel, please.
24:35Finish with O.
24:37And kind down.
24:46Bye.
24:47Bye.
24:49Bye.
25:03THEY CONFER
25:09Rob?
25:10Risky, seven.
25:11Gavin?
25:12Six.
25:13Tactics again. The six is?
25:15Hunter.
25:16Now, you didn't take the risk last time and it paid off.
25:19Will the risk pay off this time, Rob?
25:21Hounder?
25:21It's not there, Rob. I did check that one, I'm afraid.
25:25Not in the dictionary. My mind went there too, but I'm sorry.
25:28And I bet that one being there.
25:30Decent risk to take.
25:31What did we have there, Rhea and Susie?
25:33Eight.
25:35Unrooted, unrouted.
25:36Yes, either.
25:37Tell you what, Suze, if there was another celebrity countdown,
25:40you know, cos you're a seven-sided, I would not want to play Rhea.
25:43No, she's good.
25:44I can tell a lot of this is coming from Rhea, right, this week?
25:47Yeah, and the mat is very good as well.
25:49I've noticed that.
25:50Yeah.
25:50She's like, bum, bum, bum, done.
25:51Yeah, yeah.
25:52Goodness me.
25:5457.33, you should be glad, Rob, she's sitting in Dixie's Recorder.
25:57And that's where we're going to stay, for Origins Awards.
26:00Yes.
26:01And with Sharon Shaw, who asked a particular question, which was,
26:05where the phrase a cup of joe comes from when speaking about coffee,
26:09especially in the military USA, she says.
26:13A cup of joe.
26:14First thing to say is that the dictionary dates it as a slang term for coffee,
26:18as far back as the 1930s, and definitely the US is where it all began.
26:24But it also disappointingly tells us that its origin is unknown.
26:28But never do things stop there with English etymology.
26:31Not only does the work go on, but also so many theories then crop up to try and account for
26:37it.
26:37The most popular one in this case is that it comes from a ban that was imposed by Josephus Daniels,
26:44known as Joe Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy during the First World War.
26:49And the ban was for serving alcohol aboard Navy ships in the US, except on very special occasions.
26:57And coffee then became the drink of choice, it is said,
27:00and started to be called Joe because of Josephus Daniels.
27:05That's the first and most popular one.
27:07The problem is, and I always do say this, is that the dates don't quite work.
27:12So the cup of joe, first, as I say, 1930s,
27:15but the order to ban alcohol was a good couple of decades before.
27:19The most likely suggestion you might think is a little bit more boring
27:22is that it riffs on a modification of Java, the coffee beans that are grown on Java and nearby islands.
27:30And this is supported by an entry in the Reserve Officers Manual from 1931,
27:36where it talks about Jamok, Java and Joe.
27:40Coffee, derived, it says, from the words Java and Mocha,
27:43where originally the best coffee came from.
27:47Mocha is a port in Yemen where coffee and leather were exported from.
27:52That is probably the most plausible suggestion.
27:54I know it's not the most colourful.
27:56I love the idea of Josephus Joe Daniels, but it's very unlikely, sadly, to be him.
28:04Right, 57-33.
28:06Four rounds to go.
28:09Will Rob chalk up his seventh win?
28:12Gavin, your letters.
28:14A consonant, please.
28:15Thank you, Gavin.
28:16Y.
28:17And another.
28:18L.
28:20And a third.
28:21S.
28:23A vowel.
28:24E.
28:26And another.
28:27A.
28:28And a consonant.
28:31N.
28:32And a vowel.
28:34O.
28:35And a consonant.
28:37S.
28:40And a vowel, please.
28:42Lastly, U.
28:44Let's play.
28:45.
28:46?
29:14Transcription by CastingWords
29:16Gavin
29:17Six
29:18Six
29:18Rob
29:19Try seven
29:20Gavin
29:21Season
29:22And for you, Rob
29:23Unseals
29:25Unseals. You'll own luck this time in the dictionary, yes. Well done.
29:28Well done.
29:29APPLAUSE
29:31How did we get on with that, Ria?
29:33Same. Same as Rob. Unseals.
29:35That's all we have. Yeah.
29:36Great stuff.
29:37More letters, please, Rob.
29:38And a consonant, please.
29:39Thank you, Rob.
29:40P
29:41And again, please.
29:43S
29:43And again, please.
29:45D
29:46Vowel
29:47E
29:49And again
29:50I
29:51And again
29:52A
29:53And a consonant
29:54N
29:56And again
29:57T
29:59And one last consonant, please.
30:02And lastly, D
30:04And last letters.
30:06The
30:06And again
30:21To
30:35The
30:35To
30:35To
30:35To
30:35To
30:35To
30:37Time's up, Rob.
30:38Eight.
30:38An eight, OK.
30:39And Gavin?
30:40Seven.
30:41And seven.
30:42The seven is?
30:43Stained.
30:44Rob?
30:45Dandiest.
30:46Beautiful word.
30:47Lovely.
30:48Everybody used that in the 1940s.
30:50Yes.
30:51It's absolutely brilliant.
30:52Well done.
30:53All right, what do we have in Dictionary Corner then?
30:55Not as good.
30:55We were sevens.
30:57Really?
30:57Yeah, paddies, pedants, lots of things.
30:59Painted, sainted.
31:00Yes, yes.
31:01Flambass, see to your pants.
31:03Let's do it.
31:04Last numbers.
31:05Gavin?
31:06One big and five little, please.
31:08Thank you, Gavin.
31:09Potentially straightforward.
31:10Let's see.
31:11One large five little.
31:12Finish the day with eight, seven, six, five, one, and 50.
31:19And you need to reach 783.
31:2273 last numbers.
31:25Here we go.
31:51Here we go.
31:53Here we go.
31:557, 8, 3, the target, Gavin.
31:587, 8, 1.
31:59Two away, Rob.
32:017, 8, 4.
32:02Yeah, that's where I was as well, off you go.
32:048 plus 7 is 15.
32:068 plus 7, 15.
32:09Times 50.
32:11Times 50, 750.
32:13I've made a great mess of this again.
32:16Oh.
32:17Done.
32:18Gavin?
32:19Starting the same, 8 plus 7 is 15.
32:22Yep.
32:22Times a 50, 750.
32:246 times 5 is 30.
32:28Add that on and add the 1.
32:30Yep.
32:30Two below, 7, 8, 1.
32:32There you go.
32:32OK.
32:337, 8, 3, Rich.
32:35This is another one that's divisible by...
32:377!
32:389!
32:39If you say...
32:40What was it?
32:419?
32:419.
32:42You have to add the digits up.
32:446 times 5 is 30.
32:46Add 7, 37.
32:48Add 50, 87.
32:50And then 8 plus 1 is 9.
32:53And times them together, 7, 8, 8.
32:58Seven, that was a great number.
33:0072 plays 40.
33:02Been a fun show today, it really has.
33:04Let's get the fingers on the buzzers,
33:06cos the fun ends after this.
33:08Our Countdown Conundrum.
33:09.
33:14Gavin.
33:16Forsaking.
33:17Let's have a look.
33:18Yes.
33:21Oh, look at those final scores.
33:23Little moments in the game, little risks, little missed opportunities.
33:27That's all that was really in it.
33:29Gavin, you never felt like you were close enough, but look at that.
33:33You finished on half a century.
33:35Pleased?
33:36I'll tell you that.
33:37He's a very good player.
33:37Good.
33:38And you coach a young football team, an under-18s team.
33:41And if you had it done terribly, they would have ribbed you relentlessly.
33:45Absolutely, yeah.
33:46So you're not going to get that.
33:47That was a main focus.
33:47You've done very well.
33:48Give our love to them and safe home to Hulls.
33:51Thank you, mate.
33:52Will do.
33:53Tightened up a bit today, Rob.
33:55Tightened up.
33:56I could feel the tension into the happy-go-lucky Rob.
34:00It got really tense today.
34:01Need to go back to the...
34:02Mmm.
34:03Need to get back to that.
34:04Well, that's what you're famous for.
34:05Let's get you back to that for tomorrow,
34:07because you'll be here trying to become an octo-champ.
34:09We'll see you then.
34:10Excellent.
34:11Rhea, Susie, see you tomorrow?
34:12Yeah, see you then.
34:13Big one tomorrow, eh?
34:14Big one tomorrow.
34:15And it's funny, we're talking about Kenny Rogers,
34:16because his big song, The Gambler.
34:17Yeah.
34:18And I think, you know, Rob's here because he knows when to fold,
34:20he knows when to play.
34:21Yeah.
34:21He's been listening to the song.
34:23You were so close to getting those lyrics right.
34:24I just appreciate that you made the effort.
34:26I wasn't trying to get the lyrics.
34:27I was just trying to get the sentiment.
34:29That's the message I took away from it.
34:30I'll tell you what one of the lyrics was.
34:32You've got to know when to walk away,
34:33and that's what we're going to do right now.
34:35We'll see you tomorrow.
34:36We'll be here.
34:36You can count on us.
34:39You can contact the programme by email at countdown at channel4.com.
34:43You can also find our webpage at channel4.com forward slash countdown.
35:08That's awesome.
35:11Gladagh.
35:12.
35:14Emily Byron-