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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio, the Champion of Champions contest and we've got another quarterfinal to decide.
00:40Now we know that these guys are tremendous players because they've been here in the past and they've scored highly
00:45in Indy. We've had champions and finalists in the championship. Here we have Andy Platt and Dylan Taylor. But who
00:53will make light of the situation today in this quarterfinal?
00:57Talking of light, of course, the UK's largest light festival is arriving in London this weekend. It's the Lumiere Festival
01:05and it will be transforming King's Cross and the West End with neon, with floodlights and 3D video projections.
01:12So the show apparently has been held annually in Durham since 2009 and it's coming this weekend to London for
01:21the first time. The French have been at it for years. They call it Saint-Élumiere, which is sound and
01:26light. You get a castle and they put on a show.
01:29Lovely.
01:30Lovely.
01:30But now we've got it coming to London. So that's really exciting. Of course, King's Cross has been transformed in
01:34the most extraordinary way now. I don't know when you were last there, but it really has been transformed as
01:40an area of London. It's fantastic. And the West End, of course. Well, that's...
01:44Very nice. I'll make sure I check that out.
01:46There's enough neon in the West End to last us for a lifetime. But there we are. We've got with
01:51us, Rachel, Andy Platt. Welcome back, Andy, to the quarterfinals today. Last week, you went up against David Barnard in
01:58what was an extremely close match. You, in fact, won a crucial conundrum in rapid speed.
02:04And today you're joined by Dylan Taylor. Last week, a great win against Tracey Mills, scoring 120. Am I right?
02:13That's right, yeah.
02:14Fantastic score.
02:15Thank you very much.
02:16A very popular competitor here over the... I think a runner-up, weren't you?
02:20Yeah, and a record holder.
02:22And a record holder. Don't let's forget that. Let's have a big round of applause for young Dylan Taylor and
02:27Andy Platt.
02:34Brilliant stuff. And over in the corner for the last time, until we can persuade him back again, the great
02:39John Inverdale, one of the great faces of sport in British broadcasting. Welcome back, John.
02:45And Susie, too, of course.
02:47This is going to be great.
02:49This is going to be amazing.
02:50I kind of feel... I kind of feel here, like, we used the boxing analogy yesterday, but I kind of
02:54feel that we're the seconds in the corner now, and, you know, you're going to whip the stool in, and
02:59I'm going to be there with a towel, offering them advice between every single round.
03:04And I'll be the cuts man. I'll be the cuts man.
03:06All right. Andy, good luck to you. Off you go.
03:09Thank you. Hi, Rachel.
03:10Hi, Andy.
03:11Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:12Thank you. Start today with C.
03:14Consonant.
03:16T.
03:18Consonant.
03:19R.
03:20Consonant.
03:22P.
03:24Vowel.
03:25I.
03:26Vowel.
03:27O.
03:29Vowel.
03:31I.
03:32Vowel.
03:34E.
03:36And the final vowel, please.
03:38And a final A.
03:40Stand by.
04:11Andy.
04:12Eight.
04:12An eight.
04:13Dylan.
04:14Eight.
04:15Two eights.
04:15Andy.
04:16Apporetic.
04:18Apporetic as well.
04:19Both of you well done.
04:25Good start.
04:27And John and Susie.
04:28Yeah, we had erotica for seven, but that was an eight.
04:31Well done.
04:32We had that too, yeah.
04:33All right, well done.
04:34So eight apiece as we turn to you, Dylan, for a letters game.
04:37Thanks, Mick.
04:37Hi, Rachel.
04:38Hi, Dylan.
04:39A vowel, please.
04:40Start with U.
04:42A consonant.
04:44S.
04:45Another.
04:47N.
04:47Another.
04:49M.
04:50A vowel.
04:52E.
04:52A consonant.
04:54D.
04:55A vowel.
04:57A.
04:58M.
04:59A consonant.
05:01S.
05:03A vowel, please.
05:06A vowel, please.
05:06And a final I.
05:08Time tone.
05:09A vowel.
05:40Well, Dylan.
05:41Eight.
05:41An eight?
05:42Eight.
05:43Two, eight.
05:44Dylan?
05:45Sidesman.
05:46Sidesman and?
05:47Unmissed.
05:49Unmissed?
05:49Yes.
05:50Didn't go unmist or unnoticed yet.
05:52Very good indeed.
05:53Yeah.
05:53We can.
05:54John?
05:55We had some days for seven.
05:56Unmissed.
05:57We didn't have Sidesman, but pretty good.
05:59Good enough, certainly.
06:0016 apiece and it's numbers.
06:03First numbers game, Andy.
06:05Cheers.
06:06Four lights, please, Rachel.
06:07Thank you, Andy.
06:08Four from the top.
06:08And two little ones.
06:11And the first numbers challenge of the day is eight.
06:14Oh, and another eight.
06:15And the large ones, 25, 100, 75 and 50.
06:20Could be difficult.
06:22Target?
06:22866.
06:24866.
06:24866.
06:28866.
06:29966.
06:30966.
06:38966.
06:42966.
06:43966.
06:43966.
06:44966.
06:44966.
06:44966.
06:44966.
06:45966.
06:46966.
06:57Yes, Andy?
06:59866.
07:00866.
07:01And Dylan?
07:01866.
07:03Andy?
07:03100 plus 8.
07:04108.
07:06Times by 8.
07:07Times by 8, 864.
07:0950 divided by 25 is 2.
07:10Not so difficult after all.
07:12Add on.
07:12866, lovely.
07:14There you go.
07:14And Dylan?
07:15Exact same weight.
07:16Same weight, just show Andy.
07:17Well done indeed.
07:22Okay, two great contestants.
07:24Equally matched at the moment.
07:2526 apiece.
07:26As we turn to our first Tea Time Teaser.
07:29Which is Press Don.
07:31And the clue, keep pressing Don until he gives an answer.
07:34Keep pressing Don until he gives an answer.
07:53Welcome back.
07:54I left with the clue.
07:55Keep pressing Don until he gives an answer.
07:58And the answer is Respondes.
08:02Respondes.
08:03Now then, Dylan.
08:05Letters came for you.
08:07Thanks, Nick.
08:07Can I have a vowel, please?
08:09Thank you, Dylan.
08:10O.
08:10A vowel.
08:11I.
08:13Consonant.
08:14R.
08:15Another.
08:17S.
08:18A vowel.
08:19E.
08:20Consonant.
08:21L.
08:22Another.
08:24X.
08:25Another consonant.
08:27R.
08:29So, final consonant, please.
08:33And a final W.
08:35Punt.
08:36Time.
08:36Time.
09:07Dylan.
09:07A seven.
09:08A seven.
09:09Andy.
09:09Seven.
09:10Dylan.
09:11Worries.
09:12Worries and?
09:13Exactly the same.
09:14There we go.
09:15No worries.
09:17And over in the corner, John.
09:18Yeah, we had worries and lorries.
09:20Yep, seven was as good as we could get.
09:22All right, well done.
09:23Nothing else?
09:24That's it.
09:2433 apiece.
09:25And we turn to you, Andy, for a letters game.
09:27Andy.
09:28Consonant, please.
09:29Thank you, Andy.
09:30T.
09:31Consonant.
09:33N.
09:34Consonant.
09:35L.
09:36Consonant.
09:37B.
09:39Vowel.
09:40U.
09:42Vowel.
09:43U.
09:44Vowel.
09:46O.
09:47Vowel.
09:48A.
09:50Consonant.
09:51And the last one, V.
09:53Countdown.
09:54Vowel.
09:55Vowel.
10:24Andy?
10:25A seven.
10:25A seven.
10:26Dillon?
10:27Seven.
10:28Andy?
10:29Butanol.
10:30Yes.
10:31Butanol.
10:33Butanol.
10:34What is this butanol?
10:35It's a chemical solvent.
10:37Mm-hmm.
10:38And what else have we got?
10:39John?
10:39We only had sixes.
10:40We had unbolt.
10:42Yep.
10:42And volant.
10:44Volant.
10:45Volant, yes.
10:45Which is, I assume it's French derivation.
10:47It is able to fly or glide.
10:50Indeed.
10:51Used with birds.
10:51Well done.
10:52All right.
10:53And now, 40 apiece, we turn to numbers.
10:56Let's see whether that'll split you apart.
10:58Dillon, there's Rachel.
10:59Can I have six more, please?
11:01You can indeed.
11:02The other one, we've had four large.
11:03Now we've got six little ones.
11:05And they are four, three, another three, eight, nine, and two.
11:14And the target, 143.
11:16One, four, three.
11:49Dylan.
11:491, 4, 3.
11:51Andy.
11:511, 4, 3.
11:52So, Dylan.
11:53Did 9 add the 4?
11:549 add 4, 13.
11:568 plus 3.
11:578 plus 3, 11.
11:58Times them together.
11:59Yep, everyone loves a product of two primes.
12:01There we go.
12:02And Andy.
12:03Different.
12:049 times 8, 72.
12:0672.
12:07Times by 2 is 1, 4, 4.
12:09Yep.
12:103 divided by 3 is 1, and take that away.
12:11Yeah, well done.
12:13Again, 1, 4, 3.
12:14Tremendous.
12:18So, as we go to Stichery Corner, it's 50 points apiece, and we turn to John.
12:24John, you've told us some great stories from the Olympics over the years,
12:27and I think you're going to finish off with a suitably Brazilian-flavoured story.
12:31Is that right?
12:32Yeah, absolutely.
12:32I kind of feel like the half-time orange here at the moment between this fantastic contest.
12:37So, I'll get through it as quickly as I can, because I want to get back to the match.
12:40Yeah.
12:40But I think it's always interesting that these days, and everybody who goes to Brazil this
12:44summer, would have been training for four years, and they'll be financed up to the hilt
12:49and all that sort of stuff, certainly from a British perspective.
12:51But the Brazilian team in 1932 is just a fantastic story, and it gives you real insight into what
12:57it was like in the old days, because the Brazilian government was in all sorts of financial
13:01trouble at that point, and they couldn't afford to send the team to Los Angeles, which
13:05is where the Olympics were.
13:07I think they had a team of about 70-odd.
13:09And so, the athletes themselves decided they were going to have to fund their own trip.
13:13And obviously, in Brazil, there's an awful lot of...
13:16Sand?
13:17Coffee.
13:19Coffee.
13:19Coffee, yes.
13:20There's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil.
13:22Yes.
13:22Anyway, so they decided, they packed 50,000 bags of coffee, got on a coffee barge, and
13:29at every single port en route from Brazil, from Rio, all the way around to Los Angeles,
13:35they went in and tried to... and sold coffee beans.
13:38And they...
13:38But the trouble was, they only raised $24 in the course of that entire way.
13:44So, when they got to Los Angeles, it was $1 per person to get in as an entry visa, if
13:52you like, which meant only 24 of the team were allowed to get off the boat, and the rest
13:57had to stay on the boat and carry on going up to all the north-west cities, up to San
14:01Francisco and everywhere else, to try and carry on selling the beans.
14:04And then they came back, and some of them got off and were able to compete later.
14:07Anyway, so you would have thought, after that incredible...
14:09I mean, what a journey.
14:10I mean, what a fantastic story.
14:11You would have thought that would be a very...
14:13It would end with a very heartwarming, like, fantastic, well done, the Brazilians, and
14:16they got a hat full of medals.
14:18Well, no, because the water polo team were the first team into action.
14:21They played Germany, lost 7-3, thought that the referee, or the umpire in the water polo
14:27match was slightly uneven in his decisions.
14:31So when they got out of the water, they started beating him up.
14:35So the police got called to haul them off the guy, and the Brazilian team then got banned
14:40from the rest of the Olympics.
14:42So the Brazilians actually left Los Angeles without a single medal for their entire team,
14:46and a dozen of them actually had never got off the boat to be able to take part in the
14:50first place.
14:51So anyway, I only tell that story to make you realise, I mean, it's an awful long time
14:54ago, and things have changed hugely.
14:56But it's true.
14:5732.
14:58What a great story.
15:03And in fact, I think because of, you know, financial pressures, I think you'll find,
15:08actually, that a lot of the broadcasters who are going out to Rio this year are actually
15:12going on boats and selling things on the way there to pay for our trip.
15:16Yeah, indeed, indeed.
15:18I tell you what, the Brazilians were rubbish salesmen, weren't they?
15:21So they shouldn't give up sport and take up selling, that's for sure.
15:24No.
15:25$24.
15:25I think you'll find that the price of coffee was less then than it is now.
15:28I dare say, but they had a barge load of it.
15:30But what a tragic tale.
15:32It's a great story, though, isn't it?
15:33Cracking story.
15:34Cracking story.
15:36Andy, back to a very taut quarterfinal then.
15:40Come on, guys.
15:41Letters game.
15:42Continent, please.
15:43Thank you, Andy.
15:44K.
15:44K.
15:45Consonant.
15:47D.
15:48Consonant.
15:49T.
15:50Consonant.
15:52C.
15:53Vowel.
15:55E.
15:56Vowel.
15:57A.
15:59Vowel.
16:01I.
16:02Consonant.
16:04L.
16:06Consonant, please.
16:08And the last one, G.
16:10Standby.
16:42Well, Andy.
16:43Seven.
16:43And Dillon.
16:45Seven.
16:46Andy.
16:46Citadel.
16:48Citadel and?
16:49Tackled.
16:50Tackled.
16:51Tackled.
16:52And citadel.
16:53Good word, citadel, isn't it?
16:55It is.
16:55Very good.
16:55Brilliant.
16:56John?
16:57Have tackled and tickled.
16:58Yes.
16:59Sounds like the old lady who saw her to fly.
17:01And we've got dialect as well.
17:03And dialect.
17:04Well done.
17:04Susie, that's it.
17:05Ligated.
17:05Quite a few sevens, actually.
17:07It's quite nice for sevens.
17:08Very good.
17:08But what we have got is 57 apiece down here.
17:11And it's Dillon's chance now to make a breakaway move.
17:15Dillon?
17:16Can I have a vowel, please?
17:17Thank you, Dillon.
17:18E.
17:20Consonant.
17:21Z.
17:22Consonant.
17:39Final consonant, please.
17:40And a final S.
17:42Stand by.
18:13Yes, Dillon.
18:14Seven.
18:15Seven and?
18:16Seven.
18:17You two.
18:18Dillon?
18:18Pass time.
18:19Pass time and?
18:21Empties.
18:22Empties.
18:22Yes.
18:23Very good.
18:25And can the corner match or beat it even, John?
18:28We had a pasty.
18:29Yeah.
18:30Like we had the toasty.
18:31Yes.
18:31And suddenly I can, I can, I'm salivating at the thought of the pasty.
18:34And we also had a word where you had a word, mestiza.
18:37Yes.
18:38Which I have no idea what that means.
18:39Mestiza is the feminine form of mestizo.
18:42And it is a woman of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and American Indian parentage.
18:47Very good.
18:49Well done.
18:5064 apiece.
18:51And it's numbers time.
18:51It's rolled round again.
18:53Andy.
18:53Four large, please.
18:55Back to the four from the top.
18:56Thank you, Andy.
18:56And two little ones this time again.
18:59And these numbers are four and six.
19:03And the large one's 100, 50, 25 and 75.
19:08And the target, 942.
19:11942.
19:33And the large one's 100, 50, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25,
19:3325, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25,
19:3325, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25,
19:3325, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25,
19:3325, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25,
19:3325, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25,
19:43Andy?
19:44942.
19:45Dylan?
19:46942.
19:48You too.
19:49Andy?
19:50Yeah, 75 times 50.
19:5275 times 50 is 3,750.
19:57And I've just realised I've used the sixth twice, sorry.
20:00Sorry, Andy.
20:01Bad luck.
20:02Oh, that is bad luck.
20:03Dylan?
20:04OK, I went 100 plus 50 plus 4.
20:10154.
20:10Yeah, 75 over 25.
20:1275 over 25 for 3.
20:14Add it on.
20:15157.
20:16Times the 6.
20:17Well done, 942.
20:19Well done, well done.
20:21Well done, Dylan.
20:22Bad luck, Andy.
20:24And that's the split then.
20:2510 points in at 64 to 74.
20:28Let them cool down for a second as we go into our final Tea Time teaser,
20:31which is Abel Soil.
20:33And the clue, the soil makes it possible for these plants to grow.
20:37The soil makes it possible for these plants to grow.
20:59The soil makes it possible for these plants to grow.
21:02Which plants, why?
21:04Which plants, why?
21:04The lobelias.
21:05What's a lobelia?
21:06It is a shrub or a plant of the bellflower family named after Matthias de Lobel,
21:12a Flemish botanist to James I.
21:15And you will find some of them aquatic, some of them thick-trunked shrubs,
21:20but anyway, often is a bedding plant, I think, in this country.
21:23A bedding plant.
21:24Yeah.
21:24Thank you very much.
21:26Dylan on 74.
21:28Andy's 64.
21:29Dylan, it's letters for you now.
21:32Remember the bell, please.
21:33Thank you, Dylan.
21:54And a final E.
21:59Stand by.
22:31Yes, Dylan? Eight.
22:33And Andy? Eight.
22:35Dylan? Unseated.
22:37Unseated, both of you are unseated.
22:38Exactly the same.
22:39Seated, well done.
22:40All right.
22:42And in the corner, John and Susie?
22:44Yeah, unseated, unsealed.
22:46Unsalted.
22:47Unsalted.
22:48Very good.
22:48Unlots.
22:49Lots of uns there.
22:51Happily.
22:52All right.
22:53And Andy, your letters came.
22:56Consonant, please.
22:57Thank you, Andy.
22:58T.
22:59Consonant.
23:01P.
23:02Consonant.
23:04R.
23:05Consonant.
23:07M.
23:08Vowel.
23:09O.
23:11Vowel.
23:12E.
23:13Vowel.
23:15O.
23:18Consonant.
23:19S.
23:22Consonant, please.
23:23And the last one.
23:25R.
23:26Countdown.
23:27R.
23:28D.
23:31We'll be right back to you.
23:31B.
23:37V Consonant.
23:42Bye.
23:43Bye.
23:46Bye.
23:50Bye.
23:51Bye.
23:52Bye.
23:52Bye.
23:53Bye.
23:53Bye.
23:55Bye.
23:57yes andy nine nine dylan nine as though yes andy promoters and same there we go
24:13hardly anything between them john in this uh in this ding dong boxing match promoters
24:18absolutely well done and anything else you can have rumors for uh seven uh lodgers basically
24:25in america but yeah excellent very good indeed guys 100 points to dylan just 10 points behind
24:32is andy as we turn to susie for her wonderful origins of words susie i'm going to talk about
24:39the hidden connection between two words glamour and grammar and i'm going to start with grammar
24:44because grammar once meant all learning um absolutely everything it was education it was
24:51knowledge it was this sort of all-important uh ingredient in somebody's upbringing and uh over
24:58the years uh a very very important ingredient of grammar was knowledge of the occult and the occult
25:04sciences and alchemy because it was believed in those days that it was rooted in scientific facts
25:10and so one very important branch of learning was this study of alchemy and i will come on to alchemy
25:16later but that was all to do with the the science of transforming metals uh often the belief that
25:21they held supernatural uh powers and over the years this magical side of things really took hold of
25:29the imagination but it soon became clear when uh rational belief stepped in and science progressed
25:36that actually perhaps the occult and perhaps magic and learning didn't have magic didn't have
25:41everything to do with learning and it didn't explain everything so they needed a new word if you like
25:45for the magical side of things particularly magical beauty and the scots came up with glamour it was
25:52just a tiny step away from grammar but it encompassed everything that was beautiful and in fact were
25:57beautiful and magical to cast a spell over somebody uh originally was called to cast glamour over them or
26:03to glamorize them and eventually of course our much much looser sense of the words uh came into being and
26:09glamour we throw around glamorous all the time today but it was very very rooted in that idea of the
26:14occult
26:15and i mentioned alchemy and that was the medieval foreign if you like of chemistry and that's also
26:20the origin of the word chemistry because alchemy is from the arabic alchemia and that as i say was the
26:26art of transforming metals and i'm going to end up with another branch of learning this time of
26:31mathematics and that's algebra again from arabic the al is the key meaning the um and algebra originally
26:37was the um putting together of fractured bones so a surgeon would see an array of broken bones
26:44uh before him or her and they would put them together and that was the art of algebra and somebody
26:49somehow thought that the putting together of different components of a mathematical equation
26:53was like the putting together of bones and so the mathematical sense took over
26:58amazing i had no idea bones were involved
27:03wasn't euclid the daddy of algebra when i was a kid we had euclid's algebra yeah no i think that's
27:09absolutely true i used to love algebra because it was the only part of maths that involved letters
27:12so it's the only bit i could do you started young my dear so 100 plays 90 and dylan penultimate
27:19letters
27:19can i have a vowel please rachel thank you dylan u a vowel e another i consonant f consonant m
27:34consonant
27:35l consonant s consonant d the final
27:48and a final r r stand by
28:22Well, Dylan.
28:24Just a seven.
28:25A seven?
28:25Yeah.
28:26Andy?
28:27Nine.
28:28This could be it.
28:30Dylan.
28:31A dire four.
28:33Your nine, sir.
28:34Earnfields.
28:36How do we feel about that?
28:38Earnfields.
28:38Archaeological term for a prehistoric cemetery of the European Late Bronze Age.
28:43Early Iron Age.
28:44Absolutely excellent.
28:45Wow, wow, wow.
28:54Well done.
28:55Well done, Andy.
28:57Now, fight back, Dylan, as Andy goes into another letters game.
29:02Andy?
29:02Consonant, please.
29:03Thank you, Andy.
29:05G.
29:07Consonant.
29:08D.
29:09Consonant.
29:10J.
29:12Consonant.
29:14T.
29:16Vowel.
29:17A.
29:18Vowel.
29:20O.
29:21Vowel.
29:23A.
29:24Vowel.
29:26E.
29:27Final vowel, please.
29:29And the last one.
29:30O.
29:31Countdown.
29:33Countdown.
29:34Countdown.
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30:02and you seven seven and seven thank you geodata and dylan look at this same well
30:11and over there in the corner susie and john yeah we had dotage in my day why and uh but
30:21we didn't
30:21have seven no geodata computerized geographical data as you might expect absolutely brilliant
30:27spot all right so there we are 107 to 115 as we go into the final uh numbers game dylan
30:34you beat him
30:35on the last one let's see what you do now i can have one large please one large banking the
30:40conundrum
30:41thank you dylan one large five little and we could have ourselves a crucial conundrum
30:45these little numbers are four one seven eight and nine and the big one 25 and the target 391
30:56three nine one
30:57so
31:00so
31:13so
31:29Dillon.
31:303-9-1.
31:31And?
31:313-9-1.
31:32Dillon.
31:338 plus 7 plus 1.
31:358 plus 7 plus 1, 16.
31:36Times 25.
31:37400.
31:39And then subtract the 9.
31:40Yep, 3-9-1.
31:42And Andy.
31:43Yeah, exactly the same.
31:44No surprises there.
31:48Well done.
31:51So it's the final round as we go in.
31:53It's Dillon on 117.
31:55Andy, 125.
31:56Fingers on buzzers, please.
31:58Let's reveal today's crucial conundrum.
32:04Dillon.
32:05Neptunium.
32:06Neptunium.
32:07Let's see whether you're right.
32:09Wow.
32:11Neptunium.
32:11Ah, brilliant.
32:12Well done.
32:18Well done, guys.
32:19That's one of the best games I think we've had here for a long, long time.
32:24It was extraordinary.
32:25Andy went down on a numbers game and then he came back with a nine and then you came roaring
32:31in in about a minute and a half, a second and a half rather with Neptunium.
32:36And so it is that Dillon wins by two points and goes in to the first semi-final.
32:41Well done.
32:42Thank you very much.
32:42My heart bleeds, my heart bleeds, my heart bleeds for you, that was a great performance really.
32:45I'm sorry that you got it, Jeff.
32:46One mistake and that was it.
32:48That was it.
32:48All right.
32:49Very unlucky.
32:50Listen, take this kryptonite back home with you with your, you know, a great round of applause
32:55ringing in your ears from us.
32:57All right.
32:58John, you've been with us all week.
33:00You've been a great guest as ever.
33:02Can I just say as well, Andy's saying, you know, one mistake.
33:05In the Olympics, you know, the 100 metre hurdles of words here, it just fell at the last effectively
33:12and the margin was that and that's what it is in the sporting world as well.
33:16Indeed.
33:17And in all those Olympics that you followed, what one moment made your heart race fastest?
33:23Well, that's a question.
33:24Well, I mean, I'd say Red Grave's fifth gold medal in Sydney was pretty amazing.
33:29But I think you'd have to go an awful long way to beat Super Saturday in 2012.
33:34Yes.
33:34Just because it was our games.
33:35It was such a magnificent day, the three gold medals in the stadium.
33:38Yeah.
33:39You know, whatever happens in Rio, it's going to have to go some to get anywhere close to that.
33:44Indeed.
33:44But it might.
33:45And that's the great thing about it.
33:46You never know what's coming next.
33:48Well, we look forward to hearing from you from Rio.
33:51Wonderful stuff.
33:52Come and see us again.
33:53Please do.
33:53All right.
33:54And Susie, see you on Monday when we will have, for the first time, Naga Munchetti joining us in the
34:01seat next to you.
34:03Lovely.
34:03Have a very peaceful weekend.
34:05And Rachel too.
34:06Wasn't that some game?
34:07Absolutely amazing.
34:08And we've only got more of it to expect next week.
34:10Brilliant stuff.
34:11Join us then.
34:12Same time, same place.
34:14You'll be absolutely sure of it.
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34:49Thank you so much.