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01:00Ma Riley gave a groan and Pa Riley gave an absolute shriek of delight because, Rachel Riley, you popped into
01:09the world 30 years ago. Happy birthday to you, Rachel.
01:11Happy birthday to you.
01:14Well done.
01:16Now, I don't know what sort of presents you're getting today. I wonder if you'll receive anything as extravagant as
01:23this. The most expensive jewel ever sold at auction. 32 million big ones. 32 million pounds. The 12-carat blue
01:34diamond was bought by some businessman or other and then presented to his seven-year-old daughter.
01:39Seven years old.
01:40Seven years old. But what's it? I mean, this little girl, I bet he's going to grab it back a
01:44little bit later.
01:44Well, what's she going to get for her 18th or 21st or her 30th? The big, big one.
01:49Exactly. The big one. Well, happy birthday to you.
01:52He's dug himself a hole. Thank you very much.
01:52And I hope you have a wonderful time tonight.
01:54Lovely.
01:55Now then, birthday girl, who have we got? Rachel, we've got Callum Todd, a lab technician from Leeds, last on
02:00the show as champion back in 2013.
02:042013. It's been a while since you were here. How's it been?
02:07Yeah, it's been good. It's been two years since I was last here, so it's good to be back.
02:10Still playing at home and so forth?
02:12No, so it'll be interesting to see how this goes.
02:16No, that is not the right answer, Cameron.
02:19It should be a lot of time.
02:20You are devoted to Countdown.
02:21But you're joined, I think, by a great guy.
02:24Samir Pillica, as Samir is from London, a post office customer advisor, came in June 2014 as an octo champ
02:32and a semi-finalist.
02:34And I was so impressed because, of course, it's not long that you didn't speak any English at all.
02:40That's correct, yeah.
02:41Fantastic. From Bosnia, you came here, you've got a job and learned English to such an extent that your vocabulary
02:46is so wide that you became a semi-finalist on Countdown.
02:50I think that's amazing.
02:52So welcome our contestants, Samir and Callum.
02:57APPLAUSE
03:00And you're in the corner, Susie, of course, on this Monday, joined once again by John Inverdale, a regular on
03:05this show, TV and radio sports presenter.
03:08Welcome back, John.
03:09Great to be here, Nick, in such august company as well.
03:12I know. I wish you both great good fortune as Callum kicks off with a letters game.
03:19Could I take that out of a consonant, please?
03:21You can indeed, thank you, Callum.
03:22Start the week with V.
03:24And another one, please.
03:27D.
03:28I didn't get that on my birthday.
03:31LAUGHTER
03:35A vowel, please.
03:37A.
03:38Another vowel.
03:41E.
03:41A consonant, please.
03:44S.
03:45And a vowel.
03:47I.
03:48Consonant.
03:50L.
03:51A consonant.
03:54R.
03:56And a vowel, please.
03:59And the last one.
04:00O.
04:01And here comes the Countdown clock.
04:03M.
04:04M.
04:04M.
04:05M.
04:05M.
04:09M.
04:10M.
04:10M.
04:12M.
04:33Yes, Callum?
04:34A dodgy nine.
04:35A dodgy nine.
04:37Samir?
04:38A nine, Tom.
04:40Well, confident nine.
04:41Callum?
04:42Valorized.
04:44Mm-hmm, Samir?
04:45Valorized, right.
04:46Both of you?
04:48We came up with valorized as well.
04:50At least I didn't, but Susie did.
04:52All right.
04:53And valorized means what?
04:54Give value to something.
04:56Give validity to something.
04:58Valorized.
05:02Interesting.
05:03Valor.
05:04All right.
05:05Eighteen apiece.
05:06Well done, guys.
05:07That's one way to kick off the Champion of Champions show.
05:10All right.
05:10Samir.
05:12Hi, Rachel.
05:13Hi, Samir.
05:13Consonant, please.
05:15Start with X.
05:17Consonant, please.
05:19P.
05:19Consonant.
05:21D.
05:22Consonant.
05:25Q.
05:27Consonant.
05:28R.
05:30R.
05:30R.
05:30Vowel.
05:31I.
05:32Vowel.
05:34U.
05:35Vowel.
05:38A.
05:39And the vowel, please.
05:41And the last one.
05:42E.
05:43Tantan.
06:16Yes, Samir?
06:17If you don't mind, six.
06:19A six, Callum?
06:20Yeah, six is wrong.
06:21Mm-hmm.
06:21Samir?
06:22Diaper.
06:23Diaper and paired.
06:26And paired.
06:27Absolutely fine.
06:28Yes.
06:29Can you beat six, chaps?
06:30No, we've got peaked.
06:32You're peaked at six?
06:33Yeah, Q-U-E-D.
06:34But that's six as well.
06:35That's the best we could do.
06:36Pretty good.
06:3824 points apiece.
06:39Callum, it's numbers time.
06:42Could I have six small ones?
06:43You can indeed.
06:44Thank you, Callum.
06:45Six little numbers to kick us off this week.
06:47And for this challenge, they are four, nine, two.
06:52Another two.
06:53Eight, seven.
06:55And the target?
06:57161.
06:58161.
07:30Callum.
07:311, 6, 1, not fully written down.
07:34Samir.
07:351, 6, 0.
07:361, 6, 0.
07:38Callum.
07:38OK, I did 8 times 2 is 16.
07:41Yep.
07:42Add the 7.
07:434, 23.
07:44And then 9 minus 2 gets you another 7.
07:46It does indeed.
07:47And then multiply that by the 23.
07:49Perfect.
07:491, 6, 1.
07:53Giving Callum a 10-point lead now.
07:5534 to 24.
07:57Let's have a tea time teaser.
07:58It's itchy sea.
08:01And the clue.
08:02These people are always itching to get on the sea.
08:05These people are always itching to get on the sea.
08:24One welcome back.
08:25I left you with a clue.
08:26These people are always itching to get on the sea.
08:29And the answer, of course, is yachties.
08:33Yachties.
08:3334 to 24.
08:34Callum in the lead.
08:35And Samir.
08:37Off you go.
08:37Don't let him get away.
08:39Continent, please.
08:39Rachel.
08:40Thank you, Samir.
08:40F.
08:42F.
08:42Continent.
08:44T.
08:45Continent.
08:47R.
08:48Continent.
08:49Z.
08:50Continent.
08:52T.
08:53Vowel.
08:55I.
08:56Vowel.
08:57A.
08:58Vowel.
09:00E.
09:02And the last one.
09:04O.
09:06Turn by.
09:07Vowel.
09:19Bye.
09:20Bye.
09:20Bye.
09:39yes Samir some a seven column eight and an eight Samir Osteria and Tostia yes
09:50Amir's Osteria is an interesting one it's an Italian restaurant typically a
09:53simple or inexpensive one Osteria very good yeah we had a lot of more mundane
09:58words like artiste and rotates but we also had the eight of Tostia well done
10:04all right so 42 to 24 Callum let's have a vowel please Rachel thank you Callum A
10:14and another one please I and another B consonant please L another consonant M
10:24and another one T another one please N a vowel a and another vowel please and the
10:37last one O canter
11:11And Callum.
11:13Seven.
11:13Seven, Samir.
11:15Seven.
11:16Callum.
11:17Omental.
11:18And Samir.
11:19Amniote.
11:21Amniote.
11:22Yeah, I saw the countdown words coming back.
11:24Amniote is all about embryonic stage of a mammal in amniotic fluid.
11:29It's all related to that.
11:31Omental is related to the omentum, which is a fold of peritoneum connected from the stomach with other organs.
11:38Two good countdown words.
11:40Well done.
11:40John?
11:42What have you got?
11:43I'm feeling overwhelmed already.
11:44We've barely got to the second ad break.
11:47I've got words like ailment, which is kind of more my level.
11:50And then we had matinee as well.
11:53Well done.
11:5349, please.
11:5431.
11:55And we're with numbers.
11:56And it's Samir's numbers game.
11:58Samir.
11:59One last, please, Rachel.
12:00Thank you, Samir.
12:01One from the top row and five little ones coming up.
12:04And this time, your numbers are three, four, seven, nine, another three, and the big one, 100.
12:13And the target, 861.
12:158.
12:168.
12:166.
12:161.
12:208.
12:47Samir?
12:48816.
12:49861 away, Callum?
12:51861.
12:53861.
12:53We've got a mathematician here.
12:56So?
12:58100 minus 4.
12:59100 minus 4, 96.
13:01Times that by 9.
13:02Times it by 9 for 864.
13:05And take away 3.
13:06Well done, 861.
13:07Well done indeed, well done.
13:12Now, you see why Callum was a champ.
13:16Let's turn to John.
13:18John, what beckons you this year?
13:21Rio.
13:21You lucky, lucky man.
13:23I know, lucky man.
13:24Looking forward to it massively.
13:25I mean, the summer's going to be full of all these images of the Cork of Varda and Sugarloaf Mountain.
13:29And I do think, actually, I've seen some of the venues and they are just going to be spellbinding.
13:33I mean, they really, really are.
13:35I mean, like the triathlon, you know, just starts on the Copacabana Beach, as you do.
13:39You know, so if there's any event you want to take part in, it's that.
13:42Anyway, so I thought, but, you know, in the run-up here we are, you know, at the start of
13:45the new year.
13:47And it's still, a lot of the publicity about the Olympics at the moment is very negative because of all
13:51the Russian drug issues.
13:53And there are maybe other people who are going to get dragged into that, you suspect, as well, between now
13:57and the summer.
13:58So I thought I'd try and lighten things by just telling a few tales of Olympics past that shows the
14:03sort of the humanity and also the absurdity of Olympic Games over the last century or so.
14:08And I was just looking up odd incidents, like, for instance, a guy called Sumner Payne, who won the first
14:13shooting gold medal in 1896 in Athens, which he did with the aid of a whiskey flask, which he drank
14:20from copiously between each shot.
14:23So can you imagine what he was like by the end of it?
14:25But anyway, but it actually served him very well five years later when he was charged for the attempted murder
14:31of his wife's lover.
14:33And his defence was that as he'd shot this guy, or he had aimed at this guy from point-blank
14:38range and missed, as an Olympic champion, he must have missed deliberately because otherwise he would surely have actually taken
14:46him out.
14:47So as a consequence of which the police dismissed all the charges.
14:49Anyway, so I thought, well, that's an interesting alcohol and sportsman.
14:53But I thought I'd just finish today because you're a real softie and you will love this story about an
14:58Australian rower called Henry Pearce at the Olympics in Amsterdam in 1920.
15:03He actually won the gold medal in the single skulls.
15:06But in his quarterfinal, he was miles clear and literally hammered on the brakes and everybody caught him up and
15:14almost got him on the line.
15:16Why did he hammer on the brakes?
15:18Your starter for ten.
15:20To make others feel better for not reasons to have a clubhouse.
15:24There was a flotilla of baby ducklings going in front of him and he couldn't bear the thought of taking
15:31any of them out.
15:32So he ground to a halt and kept going just quickly enough to win the quarterfinal on the line by
15:38that much.
15:39Got to the semifinal.
15:40Got to the final.
15:41Won the gold medal.
15:43A kind of, for that humanitarian gesture alone, I think he deserved to be a great Olympic champion.
15:48Lovely stuff.
15:49Well done.
15:50But I think, you know, that Susie's explanation tells you everything you need to know about Susie.
15:59Because that's exactly what she would have done so as not to be showing off and to enable everybody else
16:05to feel that they hadn't been thrashed.
16:07Had I known the ducks were involved, I would have gone for the ducks had I known.
16:10Because it's actually, when you're rowing, it's very easy to take out a duck.
16:13You have to be very careful.
16:14Well, you wouldn't know.
16:15It'd scuttle out of the way, wouldn't it?
16:16Well, usually they do, but sometimes they don't, especially if they're acceptable.
16:20Have you killed on the water?
16:21I've never killed personally.
16:22What is the collected noun for ducklings?
16:25Um, do you know, I've no idea.
16:29I'm going to look that up.
16:30That's right.
16:30Leave that one with me.
16:31That's, well, shameful.
16:33Shocking.
16:33What, actually, what, guys, do you know?
16:35Meat.
16:37Meat.
16:37A meat of ducklings.
16:40A water kill of ducklings.
16:42There's a flock, a badling, a paddling, and a plump.
16:46I like the plump.
16:47A plump of ducklings.
16:48That's quite nice.
16:49That's a bit like the meat.
16:51All right, Jack.
16:52Well done.
16:53Well done.
16:5359 plays Samir's 31, and it's Callum's letters game now.
16:58Callum.
16:58Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
17:00Thank you, Callum.
17:01C.
17:02And another one.
17:04L.
17:05And another one, please.
17:06F.
17:07And another.
17:09N.
17:10A vowel, please.
17:12A.
17:13And another vowel.
17:14E.
17:15And another.
17:18O.
17:19And another one, please.
17:23A.
17:25And a vowel, please.
17:29And lastly, I.
17:31Pantan.
17:32A wedが inclusion.
17:36A�
17:37A.
17:37A.
17:37A.
17:39A.
17:39B.
17:57A.
17:59A.
18:03Callum eight and eight Samir? I think eight as well. Callum? Canalize. Yes, both of you? Canalize.
18:13Canalize. And Susie? That's superb. It's to convert a river into a navigable canal
18:20or simply to convey something through a channel. Indeed. And John?
18:26What's John got? Well, I had snail, which is a bit what I feel like today. And we also had
18:33clans and canoes.
18:36All right. Canalize takes it, though. Another canoe. Yeah. All right. Well done. All right. 67 to 39. Samir? Letters.
18:45Consonant, please.
18:46Thank you, Samir. T. Consonant. D. Consonant. T.
18:53Consonant. M. Vowel. E. Vowel. O. Vowel. U. Consonant. S. And vowel, please. And lastly. A.
19:14Countdown.
19:49Hmm. Samir. An eight. An eight. Callum. Eight. Samir. Outdates. Outdates and? The same word. Yes. Well done. And what
19:59of the corner? John? Well, Susie had Medusa. I had totems. Yes. And outdates as well as the best we
20:08could come up with. And you could have Medusa without a capital M? Yes, it's a jellyfish actually. Oh, that.
20:14Yes. Not one you'd like to meet. No.
20:16No. No, indeed. All right. 75-47. Callum in the lead. OK. And it's Callum's numbers game now. Some mathematician
20:24Callum is proving to be.
20:27Can I have one large one and five small, please? You can indeed. Thank you, Callum. One big five, little
20:33this time. And these numbers are three, seven, six, ten, four. And the big one, 50. And this target, 607.
20:44Six, oh, seven.
21:13Six, oh, seven.
21:18Yes, Callum. Yes, six or seven. Samir? Yeah, six or seven. Thank you, Callum. 50 times four. 50 times four,
21:26200.
21:27Times three. Times three, 600. And out of seven. And seven. Straightforward, yep. And Samir, same way. Same way. All
21:33right. Just a good form. Well done.
21:38So 85. Place 57. As we go into a tea time teaser, which is Worm Root. And the clue. Yesterday,
21:45this was today. Yesterday, this was today.
22:05A warm welcome back. I left you with a clue. Yesterday, this was today. And the answer is tomorrow.
22:12Tomorrow.
22:13Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant, you can email Countdown at Channel4.com to request an application
22:20form, or write to us at Contestants Applications, Countdown Leads, LS 3, 1, J, S.
22:2985 to 57. Callum's in the lead. And Samir, it's your letters game now. Good luck.
22:35Consummon, please.
22:37Thank you, Samir.
22:38H.
22:39Consummon.
22:42C.
22:42Consummon.
22:44G.
22:45Consummon.
22:46R.
22:48R.
22:49E.
22:50Vowel.
22:52I.
22:52Vowel.
22:54E.
22:57A consonant played.
23:00F.
23:01And a consonant played.
23:03And lastly, K.
23:06Countdown.
23:06Vowel.
23:38Samir?
23:39Six.
23:40Six.
23:41Callum?
23:41Just five.
23:43And your fives?
23:43Chief.
23:45Samir?
23:47Siege.
23:48Siege.
23:48How are you spelling that, Samir?
23:50C-I-E-R-G-E.
23:53Siege.
23:53Yes.
23:54Candle in French is a wax candle, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
23:59Very, very good.
24:00Very good.
24:00Excellent.
24:01John?
24:02We had kerchief as an eight.
24:05Oh, that's good.
24:06That's a lie, actually.
24:07Susie had kerchief.
24:09Pass for hankie.
24:11Very good.
24:12Kerchief.
24:12All right.
24:1385 for Callum.
24:14Samir on 63, and it's Callum's letters game.
24:18Callum?
24:19Could I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
24:21Thank you, Callum.
24:22D.
24:23And another one, please.
24:25B.
24:25And another one.
24:27L.
24:28And a vowel, please.
24:31O.
24:32Another vowel.
24:34E.
24:35And another one.
24:37A.
24:38A consonant, please.
24:41N.
24:42A consonant, please.
24:46D.
24:47And a consonant, please.
24:51And the last one.
24:52G.
24:53Stand by.
24:54B.
25:02And the next one.
25:03Kioski said it.
25:03No.
25:25Well, Callum?
25:26Seven.
25:27And Samir?
25:28Six.
25:29You're six?
25:29I'm blonde.
25:31Blonde and dangled.
25:36Yeah, tough on this one.
25:38John?
25:39Yeah, well, I thought I had blonde.
25:43Yes.
25:43And then I thought there had to be a word, a verb to go with that.
25:46Blonded.
25:47Yeah.
25:47You know, I've blonded my hair or something, but it doesn't exist.
25:50Not in the dictionary.
25:52OK, so we had dangled, and we also had a word that I confess I'd never heard of, but anyway,
25:55dogbane.
25:57What on earth is that?
25:58Dogbane.
25:58It's a North American plant with bell-shaped flowers, and so-called because it's apparently
26:03poisonous to dogs.
26:06Dogbane.
26:06Dogbane.
26:07Yeah.
26:08Bane of wonder's dog.
26:09Yeah.
26:1092 to 63.
26:12And now, Susie, we're back with you and your wonderful origins of words.
26:17What have you for us this Monday afternoon?
26:21Well, I don't know how you feel about your star sign, Nick.
26:24I'm not even sure what star sign you are.
26:26I'm an Aquarian.
26:26I'm proud of it.
26:27OK.
26:28Well, I thought I'd talk a little bit about horoscopes, because obviously it's Rachel's
26:32birthday, and you're a Capricorn.
26:34Mm-hmm.
26:35But I'm going to start with the word horoscope itself.
26:37That goes back to the Greek meaning time observer.
26:40The scopo idea is linked to telescope, et cetera, and the idea of looking.
26:45So you were looking at the time, because, of course, it's based on the idea of forecasting,
26:49predicting a person's future based on the position of the stars and the constellations
26:54at the time of birth.
26:56Now, Rachel's a Capricorn.
26:58That's represented by the goat.
27:00And the characteristics that are attributed to Capricorns are being determined, practical,
27:05helpful, and independent.
27:08That do.
27:08Yeah.
27:09That's pretty good.
27:10And the reference to goats is relevant, because I'm going to move on to the word zodiac, and
27:15that comes from the Greek as well.
27:17For animal and circle, the two words blended together, and the zodiacos was a circle of
27:23little carved animals, because the names of the constellations very often given by the
27:28Greeks were rooted in Greek mythology, and they were very much the heroes and the beasts
27:31that had performed amazing deeds, and so were given memorials, if you like, in the stars.
27:39Of course, in the western zodiac, we don't always attribute animals to the constellations,
27:44but they certainly did then.
27:46And the idea of little carved animals is also linked to zoo, believe it or not.
27:51So the zodiac and zoo have a surprising link, because back on Earth, real animals, of course,
27:56especially exotic ones, have long been a source of fascination.
27:59And the first modern facility that was dedicated to the investigation of animals opened in London
28:05in 1828.
28:07They were the zoological gardens of the Royal Zoological Society.
28:11And the word zoological goes back to that same zoo, meaning an animal, plus logica, which
28:17was the study.
28:18So it was all about the study of animals.
28:20In other words, as I say, there's a very close link, and a surprising one for me, between
28:23the zodiac and the study of animals in a zoo.
28:26Very good.
28:27Thank you, Susie.
28:32So old, the London Zoo.
28:35Yeah, 1828.
28:36Really?
28:37Amazing.
28:38Well, the zoological gardens, yes, that was mostly for the investigation, I think, and then
28:41the sort of observation and visiting.
28:43Yeah, brilliant stuff.
28:4592 to 63.
28:47And Samir, it's a letters game for you.
28:50Consulant, please.
28:51Thank you, Samir.
28:52N.
28:53Consulant.
28:53W.
28:55Consulant.
28:57M.
28:58Consulant.
28:59R.
29:00Vowel.
29:01I.
29:02Vowel.
29:04O.
29:05Vowel.
29:07U.
29:08Consulant.
29:10T.
29:11And a vowel, please.
29:13And the last one.
29:14E.
29:16Stand by.
29:17Vowel.
29:18Vowel.
29:19Vowel.
29:32Vowel.
29:33Vowel.
29:34Vowel.
29:34Vowel.
29:34Vowel.
29:34Vowel.
29:40Vowel.
29:48Samir?
29:48Seven.
29:49Seven, Callum?
29:50Seven.
29:51Samir?
29:52Routine.
29:54Routine.
29:55Callum?
29:56Runtime.
29:58Runtime.
30:00Runtime.
30:01Yes, I think you knew that was in.
30:03Yes, the times that a film or DVD last is the runtime.
30:06Very good.
30:06Well done.
30:07And John and Susie from the corner.
30:09Yeah, we had remount as a seven.
30:11Yep.
30:12When you've fallen off.
30:14All right, well done.
30:15Now, 99 to 70.
30:17And Callum, final letters game for you.
30:21Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
30:22Thank you, Callum.
30:24M.
30:24And another one, please.
30:27S.
30:27And another one.
30:29V.
30:30And another one.
30:32L.
30:34A vowel, please.
30:35A.
30:36Another one.
30:38E.
30:39And another vowel, please.
30:41U.
30:42And another vowel, please.
30:45O.
30:48And another vowel, please.
30:50And the last one.
30:52I.
30:52And here's the countdown clock.
30:55And another vowel, please.
31:14And another vowel, please.
31:14And another vowel, please.
31:14And another vowel, please.
31:14And another vowel, please.
31:15And another vowel, please.
31:16And another vowel, please.
31:17And another vowel, please.
31:26Callum.
31:26Eight.
31:27And eight, Samir?
31:28And eight.
31:29Callum.
31:30Misvalue.
31:32Misvalue and Samir?
31:33Volumize.
31:34And volumize.
31:36Yes.
31:37Misvalue is rare, but it's in the dictionary.
31:40To value falsely or wrongly, obviously.
31:42Both very, very good eights.
31:44Well done.
31:44Well done.
31:45And John and Susie?
31:48Yeah, they have simple stuff like slave and values,
31:51but volumize was what we came up with as well.
31:53Well done.
31:54All right.
31:54So, 107.
31:57Well done, Callum.
31:58Samir on 78 as we go into a numbers game.
32:01Final one.
32:02Samir?
32:02One large, please, Samir.
32:04Thank you, Samir.
32:04One from the top.
32:05And five more little ones to finish off the day.
32:08And these numbers are three, eight, two, seven, four.
32:14And the big one, 50.
32:16And the target, 580.
32:19Five, eight, zero.
32:21And the big one.
33:18And at the eight, yeah, same result, 580.
33:20Well done.
33:22All right.
33:24117 to 88.
33:26Good score there, Callum.
33:27As we go into our final round, it's the conundrum round.
33:30Fingers on buzzers, please, gentlemen.
33:31Let's reveal today's countdown conundrum.
33:39Callum.
33:40Callum.
33:40Passing money.
33:42Passing money?
33:43Yes.
33:44Roll that conundrum.
33:47Passing.
33:48Well done.
33:51Terrific score.
33:53Well done indeed.
33:54You are now propelled into the third quarterfinal with a score of 127.
33:59That's brilliant stuff.
34:00Well done.
34:00We shall see you in the quarterfinal.
34:02Sumir, we say farewell to you.
34:04But you take this piece of kryptonite with you back to London.
34:07Thank you for having you back.
34:08Thanks for having me.
34:10And we'll see you both tomorrow.
34:11John Inverdale and Susie, of course, more stories from the Olympian arena tomorrow.
34:16We will.
34:16Well done.
34:17Thank you very much.
34:18Callum is a mathematician, I think I'm right in saying.
34:21Yeah, he didn't give me anything to do on my birthday.
34:23How rude.
34:25We'll see you tomorrow.
34:27You have a very, very quiet evening.
34:29Maybe.
34:30No promises.
34:31All right.
34:31See you tomorrow.
34:32Same time, same place.
34:34You be sure of it.
34:35A very good afternoon.
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