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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to Countdown Studio and to the penultimate quarterfinal, all to play for a place in next
00:38week's semis, of course. It's so close. And yet, for many contestants, those remaining, it's so far, far away. That's
00:45right, because today, thousands of excited sci-fi fans have been waiting for the new Star Wars film to open.
00:53Episode seven, The Force Awakens, begins playing in crowded cinemas all across the UK. Who's in it? One, of course.
01:01Harrison Ford, he's back. Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, all reprising their roles that they played 30 years ago, all
01:08those years ago.
01:09I loved that film. I loved Chewbacca. I wanted to take him home with me. I loved it. I began
01:14thinking, what sort of films did I influence me or did I like when I was a young chap?
01:19And we didn't really go to the cinema. But the one that really I remember so distinctly, because I was
01:24deeply in love with her at the time, was Juliet Greco being eaten by a shark.
01:29I was so upset by that. I've been terrified by sharks ever since. Now, we've got some brilliant people with
01:35us today. We've got Stephen Briggs. Stephen's back. Sixth form college systems manager from Birmingham.
01:40Third highest scorer of the series. Completed his octochamp run back in August with a final points tally of 883.
01:49Well done, Stephen. You're joined today by Judy Burstford, a retiree from Burwell in Cambridgeshire, being cheered on by 17
01:56grandchildren.
01:58All in a row at home, watching you. Imagine that. Where you had a great run. Seven wins, I think,
02:05just denied becoming an octochamp by another of our finalists, Liam Maloney.
02:09Wonderful chap from the west of Ireland. But we're delighted to see you here. Thank you.
02:13Judy, let's have a big round of applause then for Judy and Stephen Briggs.
02:22And over in the corner, of course, Susie, as ever, joined, after quite a long absence, actually, by the wonderful
02:30Tim Rice, the multi-award-winning lyricist.
02:33Tim, I don't know when you were last here.
02:36I was last here towards the very end of the great Richard Whiteley's reign.
02:40Oh, right. That's a while ago.
02:41I was very, very fond of Richard. And I didn't want to come back for a bit. It sounds, you
02:47know, it was a kind of tribute.
02:48Brilliant, though the show was, but it's now so brilliant, I have to come back. And I don't think Richard
02:53will mind.
02:54Oh, well, we're delighted to have you. We are delighted.
02:56I'm delighted to be back in this ultra-modern... I mean, last time I was here, it was all wind
03:01-up and steam engines.
03:03We've had it redecorated just for you, actually.
03:06Really?
03:06Or, let's get down to business. Stephen, let us go.
03:10Hello, Rachel.
03:11Hi again, Stephen.
03:12Can I start with the consonant, please?
03:14You can. Good luck. I'll start this quarterfinal with R.
03:18And another.
03:20L.
03:22And a third.
03:24N.
03:26And a vowel.
03:28E.
03:30Another vowel.
03:31A.
03:32And a third vowel.
03:34I.
03:35And a consonant, please.
03:38S.
03:39And another consonant.
03:41B.
03:44And a consonant to finish, please.
03:47And finish.
03:48R.
03:49And here's the countdown clock.
03:50R.
03:51I.
04:02I.
04:03I.
04:21Well, Stephen.
04:22I'll risk an eight.
04:24How about Judy?
04:25I've got seven.
04:27And you're seven, Judy.
04:29Barneys.
04:30Thank you, Stephen.
04:33Rinseable.
04:35How are you spelling it, just the key thing?
04:37R-I-N-S-A-B-L-E.
04:39Right.
04:41I actually thought it might be there with the two E's,
04:44but it's not there at all, Stephen.
04:45I'm so sorry.
04:47I'm surprised by that myself, but no rinseable.
04:51And Barneys, you're spelling Judy, I-E-S?
04:55Yes.
04:55Yes.
04:56And that's not there either.
04:57If you have a Barney, it's E-Y,
04:59and I think the plural is also E-Y-S.
05:02So, no candor neither.
05:05So, we throw ourselves at the corner.
05:08Tim.
05:09Well, in discussion with my colleague here,
05:14nailers for seven.
05:15Yes.
05:16Um, which I assume is people who nail.
05:19Exactly right, yes.
05:20And a group of them, in fact.
05:22There you go.
05:22Well done.
05:23Thank you very much.
05:24And, er, we've yet to kick off over here.
05:27Judy, would you help us?
05:29Letters.
05:29Hello, Rachel.
05:30Hi, Judy.
05:31Start with the consonant, please.
05:33Start with T.
05:36And another.
05:38P.
05:39And another one.
05:41K.
05:42And a vowel.
05:44O.
05:45And another.
05:47U.
05:48And another one.
05:50E.
05:51And a consonant.
05:54T.
05:54Another consonant.
05:58V.
06:00And a vowel.
06:03And the last one.
06:05I.
06:06Stand by.
06:06T.
06:08T.
06:41I'll try a five.
06:43Judy.
06:44Kepi.
06:46And Stephen?
06:48Putto.
06:48P-U-T-T-O.
06:51OK.
06:53That is absolutely fine.
06:54It's a representation of a naked child in Renaissance art.
06:59So if you think about the cherubs and the cupids in art,
07:01that is a putto.
07:04Very good.
07:05Now, what else have we got, Jim?
07:07Um, tiptoe for six.
07:08Yes.
07:09Um, T-I-P-T-E-O-E, obviously.
07:11Well done.
07:13Five points to Stephen, therefore.
07:14And it's the first numbers game for today.
07:16There's Rachel.
07:17Stephen, off you go.
07:18Can I have one large and five small, please, Rachel?
07:21You can.
07:22Thank you, Stephen.
07:22One from the top and five little ones coming up.
07:25And for the first time in this quarterfinal,
07:27they are one, two, five, three,
07:31another one, quite small, and 100.
07:34And the target, 671.
07:37Six, seven, one.
07:38One from the top and five little ones coming up.
08:09Yeah, Stephen.
08:10Six, seven, one.
08:11And Judy, six, seven, one.
08:13I'm afraid I lost it.
08:14Oh, bad luck.
08:16Stephen?
08:17100.
08:18Take away three and one.
08:20Yep, 96.
08:21And five plus two is seven.
08:23Five plus two is seven.
08:24Multiply.
08:25Four, 672.
08:26And take away one.
08:27The other one, perfect.
08:28Six, seven, one.
08:29Well done.
08:29Well done.
08:30APPLAUSE
08:33Well done indeed.
08:34So, 15 points to Stephen.
08:35Plenty of time, Judy.
08:36Plenty of time for you.
08:37Let's have a tea time teaser.
08:39It's want girl.
08:41And the clue, he's poring over dating websites.
08:44He wants to take a girl fishing.
08:47He's poring over dating websites.
08:49He wants to take a girl fishing.
09:06And the answer is, he's trawling.
09:16Trawling.
09:17Now then, Judy.
09:19It's a letters game.
09:20Good luck.
09:21A consonant, please.
09:23Thank you, Judy.
09:24M.
09:25And again.
09:28S.
09:28And another.
09:31T.
09:32A vowel, please.
09:33A consonant, please.
09:34O.
09:35And another one.
09:36E.
09:37And again.
09:39A.
09:41A consonant.
09:43H.
09:45Another consonant.
09:47D.
09:51And a vowel, please.
09:53And the last one.
09:54I.
09:55Countdown.
09:56Time purposes.
09:58S&P
09:59And the opening.
09:59And now.
10:22So, now.
10:25I.
10:26And a vowel.
10:27Judy six a six Stephen eight and eight Judy
10:35Deaths
10:35Thank you, Stephen atomized
10:45Does you the world of good 23 points now and in the corner Susie and Tim Tim
10:50Well, the only one that equals that brilliant answer we've found was headmost
10:56H-E-A-D-M-O-S-T headmost. Yes. Yes means foremost
11:00But particularly in sailing in fact is that if a ship is holding a position in advance of others it
11:05is the headmost ship
11:06I see. Thank you. Well done. And Stephen
11:10We're off again on another letters game. Stephen
11:13Can I have a consonant please Rachel you can thank you Stephen M
11:18And the second
11:21Y and the third
11:24S
11:24And a vowel
11:26E
11:28Another vowel please
11:30A
11:32And a third vowel
11:34U
11:36A consonant
11:38F
11:40Another consonant
11:42D
11:46T
11:46And a consonant to finish please
11:48And the last one T
11:50And here's the countdown clock
11:52T
11:53T
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12:53though or can be 29 points is even well done and Judy it's a numbers game one
12:59from the top please and any other five and thank you Judy one large five more
13:04little ones and this time your numbers are five seven six eight nine and the
13:12large one fifty and the target eight hundred and ninety six eight nine six
13:50Judy eight nine four two away Stephen eight nine six and Stephen nine times 50
14:00nine 50 is a 450 and then eight take away six is two yeah take that off four four
14:06eight and then seven minus the other five for a two yeah and multiply yeah well
14:10done eight nine six well done well done indeed well done and now we turn to Tim
14:20Rice to put it bluntly you've won them all as a lyricist you've won Oscars Golden
14:27Globes Tonys Grammys incredible career what are you working on now well the last
14:32thing I did has yet to win a single award it was a show in London called from
14:38here to eternity based on the famous book by James Jones which was made into an
14:42even more famous film starring Burt Lancaster Frank Sinatra and that ran for
14:46six months in London the composer is brilliant but unknown getting known
14:51called Stuart Grayson and we're launching it in America where I think it has a more
14:56natural audience where people know about Pearl Harbor and all that and that will
15:00be next summer good I remember the film mid 50s and it was early 50s yes obviously
15:07you were three or four at the time it was um it featured the most erotic scene
15:11that had ever been shown to the public on film which of course is Burt Lancaster
15:16and Deborah Carr rolling around in the surf yes remember that I do got that on
15:21stage well funnily enough we didn't have to use it because it wasn't in the book
15:25believe it or not that was a brilliant decision by the director Fred Zinnerman to
15:30you know have their romance climax as it were with with surf but we did in London
15:38we did try and do that but to be quite honest it didn't really come over with
15:42the impact we wanted it was fine it didn't sort of hold up the show but when
15:46we do it in America I think we we might just you know lay off that bit of it's
15:52impossible to recreate well I'm sure it'd be a huge success in America it's it
15:56it needs nurturing but it's got a shot I think excellent stuff well done thank
16:00you Tim
16:04a great great talent a great talent Steven you're looking pretty talented today
16:1039 points and you're now off on a letters game can I start with the
16:14consonant please Rachel thank you Steven N and the second W and the
16:22third G and a vowel O another vowel E and the third vowel please A and the
16:34consonant C another consonant P and a consonant to finish please and lastly S
16:47stand by
16:51so
17:15see you
17:19Stephen?
17:20Try a seven.
17:21A seven. Judy?
17:22Seven.
17:24Yes, Stephen.
17:25Cow peas?
17:27And Judy?
17:28Weapons.
17:30Oh, weapons. That's very straightforward.
17:32Very good.
17:33Weapons, very good.
17:34Cow peas are plants of the pea family native to the Old World tropics,
17:39and you can eat their pods and seeds.
17:41Oh, good.
17:43Very good. All right.
17:45And Tim? Tim and Susie?
17:47No, that's the best.
17:49That's it?
17:49I had not heard of the cow pea until just now.
17:53Weapons, I had heard of.
17:54And both very impressive, I think.
17:57Very good. Well done.
17:58All right.
17:59So, Judy's off the blocks.
18:00There's seven points to Stephen's 46.
18:03But there's plenty of time, Judy, as you go into a letters game.
18:07Continent, please, Rachel.
18:08Thank you, Judy.
18:09J?
18:10Another one.
18:12T?
18:13And another.
18:16R?
18:17A vowel, please.
18:19O?
18:20Another vowel.
18:22I?
18:23And again.
18:25A?
18:26A consonant.
18:29G?
18:31A consonant.
18:33D?
18:35And a vowel, please.
18:36And the last one.
18:38E?
18:39Stand by.
18:40D?
18:44We things.
19:07And we may do things.
19:11Judy.
19:12Seven.
19:13A seven, Stephen.
19:14And a seven as well.
19:15Judy.
19:16Triaged.
19:18Yes.
19:19And?
19:19Triaged as well.
19:20You've both been triaged.
19:22We've chosen that.
19:23Anything else?
19:25We had goitered.
19:27Goitered.
19:27You're mechs or swollen.
19:28Severely goitered.
19:29All right.
19:3053 plays.
19:31Judy's 14.
19:32She's surging up there.
19:33And it's Stephen's numbers game now.
19:35Stephen.
19:35Can I have one large and five small, please?
19:38You can indeed.
19:38Thank you, Stephen.
19:39One from the top.
19:40And five little ones.
19:42And these numbers are eight, ten, nine, seven, four.
19:48And the large one, 50.
19:50And the target, 272.
19:53Two, seven, two.
19:53Three, four, five, six, one.
20:24How was it for you, Stephen?
20:26Yes, 272.
20:28And Judy?
20:28272.
20:29Well done, Stephen.
20:30Four times 50.
20:32Four 50s are 200.
20:35And nine times eight.
20:36Nine times eight is 72, perfect.
20:39Exactly the same.
20:40Judy, same.
20:41Yes.
20:41There we go.
20:42Well done.
20:47623, therefore 224, as we go into our second tea time teaser,
20:51which is Vine Lilt.
20:52And the clue?
20:54Will this help keep the soldiers fortified?
20:57Will this help keep the soldiers fortified?
21:16And a warm welcome back.
21:18I left you with a clue.
21:18Will this help keep the soldiers fortified?
21:20And the answer, Susie, is Vitalin.
21:25Help us out.
21:26It's a good one.
21:27I've just learnt this one.
21:28Vitalin is the chief protein constituent of egg yolk.
21:33And it comes from the Latin vitalis, which meant literally yolk.
21:38And yolk itself used to be spelt yelk because it's related to yellow.
21:43Really?
21:44We used to call yolks yelks for quite a while.
21:46Well done.
21:46Thank you, Susie.
21:47All right.
21:4863 plays 24.
21:49And it's Judy's...
21:51Judy's letters came now.
21:53Judy.
21:54Consonant, please.
21:55Thank you, Judy.
21:56And another one.
22:00And another one.
22:03Vowel, please.
22:06And another.
22:08And again.
22:11A consonant.
22:15And another consonant.
22:18T.
22:22And another vowel.
22:24And the last one.
22:26O.
22:27Stand by.
22:28Vowel, please.
23:00Yes, Judy?
23:02I'm going to try an eight.
23:04Stephen?
23:05Yes, eight as well.
23:06All right.
23:07Now, Judy?
23:08Mooniest.
23:09Mooniest.
23:09Right.
23:10And Stephen?
23:11Emotions.
23:12Emotions.
23:13Excellent.
23:15Both?
23:15Both linked, really.
23:16Being moony is to be dreamy and unaware of your surroundings.
23:19So if you're in love, you could be the mooniest person around.
23:23Oh, right.
23:23Mooning around.
23:24Yes.
23:25Mm.
23:26Tim?
23:27Well, eight is the best that we can find.
23:29There's moonlets.
23:31Yes.
23:32Which are little moons.
23:33They are.
23:33I love that word.
23:35One more eight is oilstone.
23:37And oilstone is a fine-grained flat stone used for sharpening chisels, planes and other tools.
23:44Well done, Susie.
23:45And it's 71 plays to 32.
23:46Stephen, let us go.
23:48Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
23:50Thank you, Stephen.
23:51G?
23:51And a second.
23:53Q?
23:54A third.
23:56M.
23:57And a vowel.
24:00A.
24:01Another vowel.
24:02I.
24:04And a third vowel, please.
24:06U.
24:07A consonant.
24:10R.
24:12Another consonant.
24:15N.
24:18And a vowel to finish with, please.
24:20And the last one.
24:21E.
24:23Countdown.
24:24A vowel to finish with, please.
24:25A vowel to finish with, please.
24:31A vowel to finish with, please.
24:35A vowel to finish with, please.
24:36A vowel to finish with, please.
24:40A vowel to finish with, please.
24:41A vowel to finish with, please.
24:42A vowel to finish with, please.
24:42A vowel to finish with, please.
24:42A vowel to finish with, please.
24:42A vowel to finish with, please.
24:43A vowel to finish with, please.
24:43A vowel to finish with, please.
24:43A vowel to finish with, please.
24:44A vowel to finish with, please.
24:45A vowel to finish with, please.
24:45A vowel to finish with, please.
24:47A vowel to finish with, please.
24:50A vowel to finish with, please.
24:53A vowel to finish with, please.
24:55Stephen.
24:56I'll stick with a six, I think.
24:58Judy.
24:59I've got a six.
25:00All right, Stephen.
25:02Margin.
25:03And Judy.
25:04Maureen.
25:05Maureen.
25:06Yes, very nice.
25:07Very good, two sixes there.
25:08All right, and in the corner, Tim and Susie.
25:11In the corner, Susie's come up with quagmire,
25:15which I'm very impressed with.
25:16Yes.
25:17And for gardening fans, geranium.
25:20Well done.
25:21And what's that one, Susie, you thought of?
25:23Not so nice.
25:23Yes, maingear.
25:24Oh, maingear.
25:26Not so nice, the seven.
25:27Very good.
25:2877 plays 38.
25:29And now, Susie, we're back with you
25:32for your wonderful origins of words.
25:36How will you educate us today?
25:39Well, a while ago, I did an alphabet of word origins,
25:44if you remember.
25:45I started at A and then just ran through very quickly
25:48some of the best origins,
25:49all the ones that I find most fascinating.
25:50So I thought I'd give you some more of those,
25:52starting with A and then in the course
25:54of the quarterfinals, semis, and finals.
25:57Run through the entire alphabet for you.
25:59And I'll start with alphabet itself.
26:02Fairly obvious when you think about it.
26:03It goes back to the Greek alpha, beta,
26:05because they were the first two letters
26:07of the Greek alphabet,
26:08much as we ask kids today to learn their ABCs.
26:12So they have the same idea.
26:15B, the one that always makes me smile,
26:17is for bidet.
26:18Bidet goes back to the French for a pony,
26:21and ultimately to a word meaning to trot,
26:23because the idea is you sit astride a bidet,
26:26much as you would sit astride a pony,
26:28although we don't really have bidets anymore.
26:30But it always makes me laugh, that one.
26:31Is that where trots comes from, having trots?
26:34I think I haven't mentioned the word trot.
26:36No, I don't think so.
26:38But I'll go into that one perhaps a bit later,
26:40or off camera.
26:43Brave goes back to the word barbarous,
26:48and the word barbarian indeed,
26:50which for the Romans meant any foreigner.
26:54If you were a barbarian,
26:54you were somebody who were uncivilised
26:56and outside of their own particular society.
26:59Until brave came along, you would be bold.
27:01Bold is by far the longest word.
27:04C is for crepitate,
27:06and I like crepitate because it implies crackling,
27:08so a fire can crepitate,
27:10or indeed a certain breakfast cereal
27:12can also crepitate in your bowl.
27:15D is for doll,
27:17and doll is in fact a very old word
27:19about giving alms to people.
27:21It's related to deal and the idea of giving out.
27:24So those are my eight Ds,
27:25and I'll have some more for you tomorrow.
27:26Oh, very good.
27:27Thank you, Susie.
27:30Very good.
27:33Wonderful as ever.
27:35Now, Judy, letters game.
27:38Penultimate letters game for you.
27:40Consonant first, please.
27:41Thank you, Judy.
27:42D.
27:43And another one.
27:45F.
27:46And a third, please.
27:48S.
27:50Vowel, please.
27:52O.
27:53Another.
27:54A.
27:55And again.
27:56I.
27:57I.
27:58Consonant.
28:00R.
28:02Consonant.
28:04B.
28:05And a vowel, please.
28:07And the last one.
28:09U.
28:10Stand by.
28:11M.
28:12And a vowel.
28:13I.
28:13And a vowel.
28:39By.
28:40Way.
28:42Well, Judy?
28:43Six.
28:44A six, Stephen.
28:45And a seven.
28:46And a seven.
28:47Judy?
28:48Airbus.
28:50Airbus.
28:51Stephen?
28:52Forbids.
28:53Forbids.
28:54Very nice.
28:56And Airbus, which we hadn't seen, is also there as one word.
29:00Yeah, it is actually a trademark, but it's there with a small a.
29:03That's interesting.
29:04Yeah.
29:05What else have we got, Tim?
29:07Fibrous.
29:08Yeah, for seven.
29:10Fibrous.
29:11All right.
29:1284, please.
29:1238.
29:13And final letters game for you, Stephen.
29:17Stephen?
29:18Can I start with a consonant, please, Rachel?
29:19Thank you, Stephen.
29:20T.
29:21And a second.
29:24N.
29:25A third, please.
29:27Z.
29:28And a vowel.
29:30E.
29:31Another vowel.
29:33O.
29:34A third vowel.
29:36E.
29:37And a consonant.
29:39X.
29:41And another consonant.
29:44R.
29:47And a consonant to finish, please.
29:50And lastly, V.
29:52Counter.
29:53T
29:53T
29:54T
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29:55T
30:20MUSIC CONTINUES
30:23Well, Stephen Briggs.
30:25I'll try a six.
30:26And Judy?
30:27Just got a five.
30:28And your five, Judy?
30:30Event.
30:32Thank you, Stephen.
30:33Rezone.
30:36Rezone.
30:36You certainly can, particularly in North America.
30:39You can rezone a property,
30:40which means to assign it to a different planning zone.
30:43Yes.
30:44Very good.
30:45Rezoning.
30:45Anything else?
30:46That's it.
30:46There's an extern who, again, North America,
30:50is a non-resident doctor in a hospital.
30:53Or also, in a very strict order of nuns,
30:56it's a nun who is allowed to go outside the premises,
30:58outside the convent and extern.
31:00Really?
31:01Can she come back in?
31:02I think so, yes.
31:03All right.
31:03She goes on errands and then comes back.
31:05OK.
31:06And be quick about it, they say.
31:07All right.
31:0890 plays 38.
31:10My word.
31:11Stephen.
31:11Judy.
31:12Final numbers game for you.
31:13I'll try two large, please.
31:15Thank you, Judy.
31:16Two large this time.
31:17And four more little ones.
31:20And for the final numbers game today,
31:21the little ones are five, seven, another seven, and nine.
31:25And the big one's 150.
31:28And the target?
31:30741.
31:31741.
31:59741.
32:04Yes, Judy.
32:06741.
32:07741, Stephen?
32:08Yes, 741.
32:09So, Judy.
32:10100 times 7.
32:12700.
32:13Plus 50.
32:14750.
32:15Minus 9.
32:16Yeah, nice and straightforward.
32:17741.
32:18And Stephen?
32:18The same way.
32:19There we go.
32:20Yep.
32:21All right.
32:22Well, well done, Stephen.
32:26Perched on 100 points.
32:29Well done.
32:30Against Judy's 48, but we'll talk about that shortly.
32:33Because now we're going into the final round,
32:35which is the conundrum round.
32:37So, Stephen, Judy, fingers on buzzers,
32:39let's reveal today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:43MUSIC PLAYS
33:02Stephen?
33:03Is it Desperado?
33:07Desperado.
33:08Desperado.
33:08Let's see whether you're right.
33:11Desperado.
33:12Well done.
33:19Well done, Stephen.
33:20110, good score.
33:22So, Judy, we're going to have to say goodbye to you,
33:24back to Burwell.
33:25You know, you did so well.
33:28It was just a slow start.
33:29It was just one of those days.
33:30Otherwise, I think you'd be neck and neck with him.
33:33Oh, bad luck.
33:34But I know that your 17 grandchildren will be,
33:38give you a warm welcome when you get back.
33:40And they all want to hold on to the valuable,
33:44invaluable kryptonite they can take with you.
33:46All right, you give them our best wishes.
33:49Well done.
33:50Well done, Stephen.
33:51We shall see you on Tuesday in the second semi.
33:54So, congratulations.
33:56Rest up.
33:57So that you'll be in good form and we'll see you next time.
33:59Brilliant stuff.
34:00And we shall see you tomorrow, Tim.
34:02We look forward to that.
34:03I look forward to it very much.
34:05It's been great to be back.
34:06I'm delighted to have you back.
34:08And Susie, too.
34:09We'll see you both tomorrow.
34:10See you tomorrow, Nick.
34:11Brilliant stuff.
34:12All good fun?
34:12Yep.
34:13Three places booked.
34:13Just one left for the semis.
34:15Absolutely.
34:15Find out who it is tomorrow.
34:16See you tomorrow, then.
34:17See you, then.
34:18Same time, same place.
34:19You be sure of it.
34:20A very good afternoon.
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