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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34I don't know whether you saw the results of a study that was published recently about owls
00:39and how scientists are studying their very interesting wing structure to discover how
00:44it is that they can fly so silently and swoop so silently to catch their prey.
00:49It's quite extraordinary.
00:50We've got a barn owl and I've been in the barn and it goes round and round and round
00:58and then sweeps out of the door without a sound.
01:02It's the most magical, beautiful thing actually.
01:04And apparently it's all down to the fact that there are tiny little hairs on the leading
01:09edge of the wing.
01:10That's as I understand it.
01:11But if the scientists can crack this one, can you imagine the number of uses to which they
01:18can put it?
01:19Noise in public places drives me crazy.
01:20And one of the things that really upsets me, and I take trains a great deal, are the constant
01:27announcements that the train manager, he's not a guard anymore, he's a manager, tells the
01:33customers, we're not passengers anymore, about how Tracy's about to open the cafeteria and
01:39what's on sale there.
01:40And, you know, if we don't take our case off, they'll blow it up and chase us and hunt us
01:45down and when we're going to get here and all the rest of it.
01:48Is it necessary, I wonder?
01:51No, probably not.
01:52It's every single stop, isn't it?
01:53So if you're at the first stop and you're getting all the way to the end, then you hear
01:55it 25 times.
01:57You're right, that is annoying.
01:58What drives you crackers?
02:00Oh, well, it's commuters, especially when they have the special quiet zones, don't they?
02:04And if you choose to go in the quiet zone, especially in the morning, you want to get some
02:07sleep and then there's people rabbiting on or on their phones or you can hear the music
02:11that you don't want to hear, nothing worse.
02:13Well, there probably are things worse, but it's quite annoying.
02:15Spilling out from their headphones, yeah.
02:16Yeah, that's annoying, isn't it?
02:18Yeah, quiet.
02:19There we are.
02:20Well, we've got a very remarkable and really quite a quiet player with us today, back again,
02:27Thomas Carey, sixth form student from Bingley, five wins and he's been a tremendous competitor
02:33and when it comes, of course, to the conundrum, he's been outstanding, although he's a bit slack.
02:37Back on the last one, I think he got it in about four seconds rather than his normal one second.
02:43But hey.
02:44Shameful.
02:45You're winning.
02:46You're joined by Brendan Duke, an odds compiler for a bookmaker from Dublin, has a daughter
02:52called Daisy Duke and I understand he wants to go to lift home from six times, British
02:56champion jockey, Kieran Fallon.
02:58How did that happen?
02:59Well, my dad, I had to go from Kempton to Cambridge, which Newmarket is very nearby and my dad said,
03:08oh, I'll organise a lift for you.
03:09And so around the sixth race he said, I've got a lift for you with Kieran.
03:13So I was there, that's great.
03:14And I was there, Kieran Fallon.
03:16And this is at the height of his fame.
03:18And so I got a lift home with him, which he's a very, very nice man.
03:23But just the, you meet your heroes and they're so ordinary, just all he wanted to talk about
03:30was property prices.
03:31Oh, is that right?
03:31Yeah.
03:32More importantly, how did he drive?
03:34No, he had a driver so that he could concentrate on the property prices.
03:37But then he does need to lift somewhere as well.
03:40Well, indeed, indeed they do.
03:42Well done, Brendan.
03:43Big round of applause for Brendan Duke and Thomas Carey.
03:49Well done.
03:50And of course, Susie's back with us, as indeed is Serana Fiennes, explorer and adventurer.
03:56We'll talk to you a little bit later about your extraordinary exploits.
03:59But now it's down to young Thomas Carey to take us away on a letters game.
04:03Thomas.
04:04Hi, Rachel.
04:05Hi, Thomas.
04:05Can I have a continent, please?
04:06You can indeed, thank you.
04:07Start today with S.
04:09And a vowel.
04:11I.
04:12And a consonant.
04:13T.
04:14And a vowel.
04:16A.
04:17And a consonant.
04:18D.
04:19And a vowel.
04:21E.
04:22And a consonant.
04:24S.
04:25And a vowel.
04:27I.
04:29And a consonant, please.
04:31And lastly, G.
04:33And here's the countdown clock.
04:36And a consonant, please.
04:39And a consonant, please.
04:40And a consonant, please.
04:46And a consonant, please.
04:49And a consonant, please.
04:49And a consonant, please.
04:50And a consonant, please.
04:50And a consonant, please.
04:52And a consonant, please.
04:52And a consonant, please.
04:53And a consonant, please.
04:54And a consonant, please.
04:54And a consonant, please.
04:54And a consonant, please.
04:54And a consonant, please.
04:55And a consonant, please.
04:55And a consonant, please.
04:55And a consonant, please.
04:56And a consonant, please.
04:57And a consonant, please.
04:57And a consonant, please.
05:05yes Thomas seven a seven Brendan I've got a seven all right Thomas daisies and Brendan steadies
05:13steadies no that's that's why I went wrong that's right yeah you need to use that's right Brendan
05:19sorry early lead there for Thomas but in the corner anything interesting Saran digests digests yeah
05:29thank you very much now then Brendan your letters game good luck hi Rachel hi Brendan consonant please
05:36thank you start with T consonant T consonant B consonant T bell a bell e bell a bell
05:57oh and a consonant please and lastly why stand by
06:33Brendan to six a six Thomas six Brendan bolted thank you battered and battered that is yep that's it
06:44fine and in the corner there what have you got Susie and Saran utter boy you can have at a
06:50boy you can
06:51um expression of encouragement or admiration to a man or boy or a dog indeed um yep it's there for
06:58seven a double t a b o y all right 13 plays a six Thomas sir just in the lead
07:03now early days as we
07:05turn to numbers Thomas one large please your usual thank you Thomas one large one five little ones to
07:12start the day and these numbers are eight seven ten one another ten and the big one 25 and the
07:21target 433 433
07:27so
07:40so
07:41so
07:41so
07:55Yes, Thomas?
07:56433.
07:57Now then, Brendan, 433.
08:00Thomas?
08:0010 plus 8.
08:0110 plus 8, 18.
08:04Times 25.
08:05Is 450.
08:06Minus 10, minus 7.
08:08Yep, 433.
08:09Well done.
08:10And Brendan?
08:1125 plus 10 plus 8 plus 1 is 44.
08:15Yep.
08:16Times 10.
08:17Times the other 10, 440.
08:18Minus 7.
08:19Yep, lots of ways for this one.
08:20Well done.
08:21Very good.
08:22Thank you very much.
08:25So 23 plays 16 as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
08:29which is ring cogs.
08:31And the clue, give someone a mouthful and take a hike.
08:34Give someone a mouthful and take a hike.
08:52Welcome back.
08:53I left you with a clue.
08:54Give someone a mouthful and take a hike.
08:55And the answer is scrogging.
08:59Scrogging.
09:00Is that a sort of a verb?
09:02To scrogg somebody.
09:03No, it's a noun.
09:03And I don't know if Rand's ever had any of this up a mountain.
09:06But it's used by hikers, certainly.
09:08And it's a mixture of dried fruit, nuts and other food.
09:12Have you come across that, Matt?
09:14Scrogging.
09:14Yeah.
09:15I think maybe a long time ago in the army.
09:17Yeah, OK.
09:18Yeah, not recently, no.
09:19I think we should get you some for your next adventure.
09:22That would be fair.
09:23I'll hold you to that.
09:24All right.
09:24I'll get you some for your rucksack.
09:27Now then, 23 plays 16.
09:30Brendan, letters game.
09:32Consonant, please.
09:33Thank you, Brendan.
09:34T.
09:35Consonant.
09:38S.
09:38Consonant.
09:53And the last one, T.
09:57Countdown.
10:29Yes, Brendan.
10:30Seven.
10:30Seven, Thomas.
10:32Seven.
10:33Brendan.
10:34Hostage.
10:35Hostage.
10:35Thomas.
10:36Goatish.
10:39Yes.
10:40Goatish is there.
10:41Double-checked in the dictionary.
10:42All right.
10:43Bit frisky.
10:43Thank you very much.
10:44What have we got in the corner?
10:47Atheist.
10:48Atheist.
10:49And also ghettos.
10:50You can spell it without the E at the end, as well as with.
10:53All right.
10:54Third, he plays 23.
10:56And it's Thomas' letters game.
10:57Consonant, please.
10:58Thank you, Thomas.
10:59R.
11:00And a vowel.
11:02O.
11:03And a consonant.
11:04V.
11:05And a vowel.
11:06E.
11:07And a consonant.
11:09R.
11:09And a vowel.
11:11Shout out to all the dogs out there.
11:13I.
11:13And a consonant.
11:15T.
11:16And a vowel.
11:18E.
11:20And a consonant, please.
11:21And the last one.
11:23C.
11:24And it's the countdown clock.
11:27And it's the countdown clock.
11:56Thomas.
11:57Nine.
11:58And nine for Thomas.
11:59Brendan.
12:00Nine.
12:00Two nines.
12:02Yes, Thomas.
12:03Overtired.
12:04Overtired.
12:05You're both over-exhausted.
12:07Very good.
12:12Overtired.
12:13Well done.
12:13Any more nines or eights?
12:16Anything to offer?
12:17Riveted.
12:18And override is an eight as well.
12:22Overtired.
12:23He's overtired.
12:2548 plays 41.
12:27And now, Brendan, it's your numbers game.
12:30One large, please, Rachel.
12:31Thank you, Brendan.
12:32One from the top again.
12:33And five little ones.
12:35And these little ones are two, one, five, nine, and ten.
12:42And the large one, 75.
12:44And the target, 472.
12:47472.
12:48482.
13:18482.
13:19Yes, Brendan?
13:21472.
13:22472.
13:22Thomas?
13:23472, not written down.
13:25So, Thomas?
13:26OK, 5 plus 1.
13:275 plus 1 is 6.
13:3075 plus 2.
13:3175 plus 2, 77.
13:34Times them together.
13:35For 462.
13:36And add the 10.
13:37472.
13:38Nicely done.
13:40Now then, Brendan, same way.
13:44There we go.
13:45Very good.
13:48So, it's still about 7 points different.
13:5158 plus 51.
13:52As we turn to Sir Ranof.
13:54And, Sir Ranof, age 71, as indeed I am,
13:58you've just become the oldest Brit to complete the Marathon de Sable.
14:02Extraordinary race and extraordinary temperatures.
14:05Do you have to work to keep fit,
14:07or are you just a naturally sort of fit sort of guy?
14:10Well, I didn't used to have to work too hard at it.
14:14The occasional run, like if you're in London,
14:17go around Hyde Park sort of thing.
14:19But basically, after 70,
14:21I realised that without fail,
14:23five times a week,
14:24you'd have to spend half an hour every morning
14:26when you get up doing stretch and squats
14:28and all that sort of stuff.
14:30About half an hour,
14:31which is annoying,
14:32because there's other things to do,
14:33but you have to do it.
14:34And when you do it when you get out of bed
14:36before you do anything else,
14:38otherwise, you know, you'll give it a miss.
14:40And at least four one-hour,
14:44I was going to say runs,
14:46but age 65 it became jogs,
14:49and age 70 it became shuffles.
14:52I don't believe you have to do that number, basically.
14:55And then in order to keep mentally at it,
14:59you join a team,
15:00because then you can't,
15:02when you have a team event competition,
15:04you can't let them down.
15:05So it makes you keep training
15:07and not get idle,
15:09and all sorts of things.
15:10I did one,
15:12Steve Seaton was the editor
15:14of Runner's World magazine,
15:15and he recently asked me
15:18to do the North Pole Marathon with him
15:20for a charity.
15:22There's only 16 people in the race,
15:24and Steve,
15:25who knows everyone in the world,
15:26their running ability,
15:27he said,
15:28that bloke's done a marathon in two hours, 10.
15:31That one has just won the fastest up Kilimanjaro.
15:34He said,
15:35out of 16,
15:36you and I will come 15th and 16th,
15:38so don't get any big ideas.
15:40So anyway,
15:40we got there,
15:41and we found that it all split up the ice,
15:44and therefore,
15:45instead of running 26 miles,
15:47you run around 5 miles X number of times.
15:51So a track develops.
15:53And after the first time running,
15:55and he was quite right,
15:56we were coming last,
15:58you begin to get tired of running on snowshoes,
16:01because your legs are apart,
16:02and running with your legs apart is uncomfortable.
16:05So Stephen,
16:05he said,
16:06I will try taking them off,
16:08because we've got a beaten plaque in the snow.
16:11So he took them off.
16:12I didn't actually see them again,
16:14but after a bit,
16:14I saw someone up ahead.
16:16I was catching one of these brilliant people,
16:18and I got up close to them,
16:20and the bloke,
16:21he knew I was sort of polar,
16:23and he said,
16:24Ran,
16:24I can't see anything.
16:26My goggles are all misting up.
16:28But the Russians had said,
16:30you must wear goggles,
16:31or you'll get sun blind.
16:32Well,
16:33I actually knew that at that time of the year,
16:35the sun wasn't strong enough,
16:36but I thought,
16:37why tell him?
16:40So,
16:41anyway,
16:42I went past that bloke,
16:43and another one was there,
16:45so before I got there,
16:46I put my goggles back up,
16:49and the bloke had the same problem.
16:51Anyway,
16:52I came second.
16:54That's a lovely story.
17:00Wonderful story.
17:03Excellent.
17:0358 to 51,
17:05Thomas in the lead,
17:06and now,
17:06Thomas,
17:07you ready for another letters game?
17:09Consonant, please.
17:10Thank you, Thomas.
17:11G.
17:12And a vowel.
17:14U.
17:15And a consonant.
17:17R.
17:17And a vowel.
17:19O.
17:20And a consonant.
17:21D.
17:22And a vowel.
17:24U.
17:25And a consonant.
17:27Q.
17:28And a vowel.
17:30I.
17:32And a consonant, please.
17:34And the last one,
17:35S.
17:36Stand by.
17:37OK.
18:08Thomas.
18:09Six.
18:10A six.
18:11Brendan.
18:11Six.
18:12Sir, Thomas.
18:13Goods.
18:14Goods.
18:15Yes.
18:16Same.
18:17Brendan.
18:18Two goods.
18:19Any more goods?
18:21Anything else?
18:23Sir, Anne?
18:23Goods.
18:24Goods?
18:24Goods all round?
18:25Yes.
18:2664 plays 57.
18:28Brendan,
18:29your letters game.
18:30Consonant, please.
18:31Thank you, Brendan.
18:32G.
18:33Consonant.
18:35D.
18:36Consonant.
18:38X.
18:39Consonant.
18:41N.
18:42L.
18:43A.
18:44L.
18:46O.
18:47L.
18:49E.
18:50L.
18:52A.
18:53And a consonant, please.
18:54And the last one, L.
18:56Here's the countdown clock.
19:29Yes, Brendan.
19:30Six, not written down.
19:31Six.
19:32Thomas?
19:33Seven.
19:34So, Brendan.
19:35Angled.
19:36Angled and?
19:37Adnexal.
19:39Brilliant.
19:40It's all to do with the adnexa,
19:42and they're the parts that are adjoining an organ in the body.
19:46Adnexal.
19:47Brilliant.
19:48Very good.
19:51Well, well.
19:53Very good.
19:5471 now to 57.
19:55And, Thomas, it's numbers time for you.
19:58One large, please.
20:00Thank you, Thomas.
20:01Doesn't deviate.
20:02One large, five little ones.
20:04And this time, your selection is seven, five, one, four, six.
20:10And the big one, 100.
20:11And the target, 944.
20:15944.
20:16And the target, 944.
20:48Yes, Thomas?
20:49944.
20:50944.
20:51And Brendan?
20:52Yes, 944.
20:53Sir Thomas?
20:54100 minus 5.
20:56100 minus 5, 95.
20:576 plus 4.
20:596 plus 4, 10.
21:01Multiply them.
21:02950.
21:03Take the 7 and add the 1.
21:05Well done.
21:05944.
21:07Thank you, Brendan Duke.
21:08Same way?
21:10Yeah.
21:10Are we happy?
21:11All right, very good.
21:15Well done.
21:16Scoring well.
21:17Let's have a tea time teaser.
21:19It's elect fun.
21:20And the clue, to get this, you might have to think dirty.
21:24To get this, you might have to think dirty.
21:39To get this, you might have to think dirty.
21:43And the answer is feculent.
21:50Feculent?
21:51What is this feculent?
21:52It's not very nice.
21:54It means of or containing dirt, sediment or waste matter.
21:57It can be applied to bodily parts.
21:59It can be applied to boggy water or boggy land.
22:03Basically, you don't want to meet anything that's feculent.
22:06No.
22:07Try and do my best.
22:0981 to 67.
22:10Thomas is in the lead.
22:11And Brendan's letters game now.
22:13Brendan.
22:14Consonant, please.
22:15Thank you, Brendan.
22:16S.
22:17Consonant.
22:19C.
22:20Consonant.
22:21W.
22:22Consonant.
22:24L.
22:25Vowel.
22:27E.
22:27Vowel.
22:29U.
22:29Vowel.
22:31A.
22:32Vowel.
22:34I.
22:35And a consonant, please.
22:36And the last one, M.
22:39Stand by.
22:40BELL RINGS
22:41VOWEL.
22:42Up.
23:10VOWEL.
23:11Yes, Brendan.
23:12Eight.
23:13An eight.
23:14Thomas?
23:14A seven.
23:15And you're seven.
23:17Caesium.
23:19Caesium, Brendan.
23:20Musical.
23:22Musical.
23:24So you're spelling it with the E at the end.
23:26That's brilliant.
23:27You didn't get either of those, I have to say.
23:29Musical is a musical gathering or concert in North America.
23:32Brilliant.
23:33Well done.
23:35Very good.
23:37Closes you up a bit too.
23:38So 81 plays 75 now.
23:41But in the corner, before we proceed, what have we got in addition to musical?
23:46Muscle.
23:48Muscle.
23:49Macules, which are colours of patches of discoloured skin.
23:53They're for seven, but yeah.
23:55Musical takes it.
23:56Well done, Brendan Duke.
23:57All right.
23:58Now it's Thomas' letters game.
24:00Thomas?
24:00Consonant, please.
24:02Thank you, Thomas.
24:02K.
24:03And a vowel.
24:05E.
24:05And a consonant.
24:08S.
24:09And a vowel.
24:10O.
24:11And a consonant.
24:13M.
24:14And a vowel.
24:16E.
24:17And a consonant.
24:19C.
24:20And a vowel.
24:23O.
24:25And a consonant.
24:29And lastly, N.
24:30And here's the countdown clock.
24:33And here's the countdown clock.
25:03Thomas?
25:04Thomas?
25:04Just five.
25:05A five.
25:06And Brendan?
25:08Just five as well.
25:10Thomas is kicking himself.
25:12Sorry, I've just seen a seven.
25:13Never mind.
25:14Give us the five first.
25:16Moons.
25:17And?
25:18Smoke.
25:19And your seven?
25:20Someone.
25:21Someone.
25:21There we go.
25:22Never mind.
25:23In the corner, was there someone with someone?
25:26We had someone.
25:27Well done.
25:28Anybody else?
25:29That's it?
25:29Someone.
25:30Well done.
25:30All right.
25:31Hard luck, Thomas.
25:31Yes, these things happen.
25:33Six points ahead, though.
25:3486 to 80.
25:35And it's Susie's turn.
25:38That special time.
25:40Susie's origins of words.
25:42A wonderful time.
25:44Well, I'm not sure how wonderful it's going to be,
25:45because I'm going to talk about legalese,
25:47which is not something many of us enjoy.
25:51But it will come as no surprise that legal language
25:53is full of Latin.
25:55And it's full of Latin that's still used to this day,
25:59particularly in words that have their roots
26:01in Roman law, or at least in the law
26:04that came in particularly after the Norman conquest.
26:08Because, as I often say, when the Normans arrived in Britain,
26:10their French absolutely flooded Anglo-Saxon England
26:15and their language.
26:16And so many of the words that we use today
26:18we owe to the French.
26:20People weren't very happy about it at the time,
26:22but slowly English and French coexisted.
26:25And a new type of language emerged,
26:26which is called Anglo-Norman.
26:27But in Roman law, a judex was a judge.
26:32It comes from jude, meaning law,
26:35and dicere, to say or pronounce.
26:37That's the root of dictate and indeed dictionary.
26:40And from judex or judex came not only judge,
26:43but also judiciary and justice.
26:46An accused person might be vindicated.
26:48That comes from the Latin vindicare,
26:50to set free, to literally, to let someone go.
26:54And jurors were those who swore an oath,
26:56and that's related to the French word jure,
26:58meaning to swear.
27:00But plaintive is probably one of my favours.
27:03That goes back to the Latin verb plangere,
27:05which was to beat one's breast or lament.
27:08Later it was an audible expression of woe.
27:11That, of course, has given us complaint as well.
27:14And finally, jurors who swore an oath
27:18would give a veridictum,
27:20and that literally meant truly spoken.
27:22And that, of course, is at the heart of today's verdict.
27:25Very good. Well done.
27:30Score standing at 86 to Brendan's 80.
27:34And Brendan, choose your letters.
27:36I'll have a consonant, please.
27:39Thank you, Brendan.
27:40Z.
27:41Consonant.
27:43N.
27:44Consonant.
27:45L.
27:46Vowel.
27:48I.
27:49Consonant.
27:51N.
27:52Vowel.
27:54U.
27:54Vowel.
27:56A.
27:57Vowel.
27:59E.
28:00And a consonant, please.
28:01And lastly, W.
28:03Stand by.
28:03Vowel.
28:05Vowel.
28:06Vowel.
28:18Vowel.
28:20Vowel.
28:26Vowel.
28:34Brendan yeah I'll try a six a six how about Thomas six Brendan online online online I'm
28:43so sorry yes in whale and in whale in whale is is absolutely fine that's the structural piece on
28:52the inside of a boat so an internal gunwale if you like yeah unfortunately unlined is there but not
28:59online Brendan sorry I'd love bad luck and what's in the corner it's around no Susie in whale with
29:07ours as well in whale all right thank you very much night's due pays 80 Thomas final letters
29:12game consonant please thank you Thomas P and a vowel a and a consonant T novel oh the consonant L
29:28and a
29:29vowel E and a consonant M and a vowel I and a consonant please and the last one L and
29:42here's the countdown clock
29:46so
30:14Yes, Thomas?
30:16Seven.
30:16A seven.
30:18Brendan?
30:20I'll try an eight.
30:21Thomas?
30:22Melio.
30:23I don't know how to pronounce it.
30:25M-A-I-L-L-O-T.
30:27And Brendan?
30:29Molliate.
30:32Molliate?
30:33No, no, Molliate.
30:34M-O-L-L-I-A-T.
30:36Oh, not there.
30:38No.
30:38Sorry, Brendan.
30:39I can see why you took the risk.
30:42You can see it might, you know, like an emollient, you can see why it might be there.
30:45But it's not, unfortunately.
30:47And a mayo, it's a swimsuit in French and in North America.
30:50And over here, it's a pair of tights worn by ballet dancers and circus artists.
30:55A mayo.
30:55Really?
30:56And it's in the dictionary, is it?
30:57It is, yes.
30:58All right.
30:5999 plays 80.
31:01But, erm, what else has the corner got, perhaps, apart from swimming togs?
31:08Anything else?
31:08M-M-M.
31:09Oh, optimal.
31:10Optimal.
31:11And Susie?
31:12Erm, and we have Lamplit, which is quite poetic.
31:15Lamplit?
31:16Lamplit.
31:17Yeah, why not?
31:1999 plays 80 and it's the final numbers game for our odds compiler from Dublin, Brendan Duke.
31:27Yeah, gambling time ratio.
31:29Six more, please.
31:30Six more, why not?
31:31And hopefully we'll find a possible one for a crucial conundrum.
31:34Thank you, Brendan.
31:35Right, the last numbers of today are 9, 2, 10, 6, 8 and another 8.
31:43And the target, 968.
31:46968.
31:47968.
31:47Name it, Sean.
32:17They lors of VFPE and greninry!
32:172399.
32:17Send English to us 399.
32:17yes Brendan nine six seven all right and nine six eight and nine six eight so six
32:27times two six times two is twelve times eight times eight is 96 times 10 times
32:3310 960 not the eight yeah one way to get there well done nine six eight well
32:37done how about Brendan so there we are 109 to Brendan's considerable 80 as we
32:47on buzzers let's reveal today's countdown conundrum Thomas educating educating
32:57some surprise that you were so fast amazing let's see whether you're right
33:02educating well done very good one of your faster ones too just a couple of
33:13seconds there 119 plays 80 at the end of the day and so it is that Brendan Duke
33:18returns to Dublin and Daisy Duke with our very best wishes thanks very much and
33:24take this goodie bag with you you came up against an incredible player really yes
33:29who's now I think got six wins under his belt and they're all formidable I think
33:33the his conundrum skills are just extraordinary Thomas we'll see you on
33:38Monday because we're going racing to Newmarket no doubt Brendan you'll be
33:42interested in that with your bookies um absolutely yes I was an interest in
33:46meeting you actually yeah we'll see you on Monday see on Monday have a peaceful
33:50time we'll see you both on Monday so ran will you come back on Monday of course
33:55anytime you all right Susie to yes and Rachel shame to lose Brendan and his
34:00perfect comic timing okay all right we'll see you all on Monday same time same place
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