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00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio on the very day, 950 years ago, the very day, 950 years
00:40ago, that was back in 1066, that the Duke of Normandy, more famously of course known as William the Conqueror,
00:46and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River in France on an important journey to our
00:52shore.
00:52It was in fact an invasion, and he pitched up here, and so began the Norman invasion of England.
00:59It all came to a head on the 14th of October of that very year, when the battle between the
01:04Norman French army and the English Anglo-Saxon army, of course, took place at battle on the Battle of Hastings.
01:11So, that happened, and we then begin to think, well, he made a big journey across the Channel.
01:19I've taken a few journeys, you have.
01:21Have I bored you about taking my dog all the way through Eastern Europe?
01:26No.
01:26No.
01:27Go on, then.
01:27That was great.
01:29My family, people said, you're not taking that dog to Eastern Europe.
01:33They'll eat it.
01:34I said, they won't eat it.
01:36And in fact, we got to Hungary and checked into the great Galert Hotel in Budapest, on the river there.
01:44And the dog was given the biggest dish of goulash you've ever seen.
01:49Lovely.
01:50They love that dog.
01:51She's dead now.
01:52Well, of course.
01:53It's one of your stories.
01:56It's one of your journeys.
01:57You're a big traveller.
01:58Where have you been recently?
01:59I guess the biggest journey was across Borneo.
02:01We went all the way across Malaysia and Borneo from one side to the other.
02:05And it was fabulous.
02:06Yeah.
02:06Lots of wildlife.
02:08And I didn't go to the markets because, unfortunately, over there they do eat cats and dogs and not something
02:12I want to see.
02:13Is that a fact?
02:14Mm-hmm.
02:14In Borneo?
02:15Do they really?
02:16In Malaysia?
02:16Yeah.
02:17I believe so.
02:17Well, let's see whether Jamie Washington is going to eat his contestant alive today.
02:24Jamie is a student from Huddersfield learning English.
02:27Actually, everybody knows this because you've been here.
02:29You've almost got a season ticket.
02:31Anyway, you've got seven wins under your belt.
02:33Well done.
02:34But you've got to get over Gary McEnany, an air compressor salesman from Emmivale?
02:41Yeah, that's right.
02:42In County Monaghan.
02:43That's right.
02:44Welcome, Gary.
02:45He's a terrific player.
02:46Oh, I know.
02:47But listen, don't tell anybody, but sometimes they get exhausted.
02:52Oh, hopefully.
02:52And somebody comes along and takes their crown away from them.
02:55So let's see whether it'll be you today, shall we?
02:57Sure, I'll give it a try.
02:58We've met before, apparently, in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Monaghan.
03:02That's right.
03:03And I was filming there.
03:04That was fun.
03:04Yeah, yeah, it sure was, yeah.
03:06All the floats went past and the bands and the Lord knows what.
03:09Yeah, I was on the Bally Albany Church float to help out with it and you were just...
03:14Messing around.
03:14...standing along.
03:15Yeah, you didn't see me or...
03:17I think I did, actually.
03:19Gary?
03:20Yeah.
03:21Welcome.
03:22Let's have a big round of applause for Gary and Jamie.
03:26APPLAUSE
03:29And over in the corner, of course, we've got Susie, joined once again by Helen Fospero,
03:36TV radio reporter and presenter.
03:38Been on the show a number of times and always great value.
03:41Welcome back.
03:42I know, they keep letting me back in.
03:44LAUGHTER
03:45Listen, welcome back.
03:47Let's get down to business, Jamie.
03:48Good luck to you.
03:49You've played brilliantly.
03:50Let's do what you can carry it on.
03:52Let's start over a consonant, please, Rachel.
03:54Thank you, Jamie.
03:55Start with T.
03:57And another.
03:59S.
04:00And another.
04:02P.
04:03And a farf.
04:05K.
04:06And a vowel.
04:08E.
04:09And another vowel.
04:10A.
04:12And a consonant.
04:14J.
04:16A vowel.
04:18O.
04:19And a final consonant, please.
04:23And a final T.
04:24And here's the countdown clock.
04:40ORGAN PLAYS
04:57Yes, Jamie?
04:58Just a five.
04:59Gary?
05:00Just a five as well.
05:02Jokes.
05:03Gary?
05:04I don't want to speak.
05:05I'm sorry?
05:06Speak.
05:08Can we beat five?
05:09Surely.
05:10Helen and Susie.
05:11What have you got?
05:12We found a teapot hiding in there.
05:14A seven.
05:15Well done.
05:16Yes.
05:16With another with the S on.
05:17So more than one teapot.
05:19Oh, so more than one teapot.
05:20One teapot.
05:20Well done.
05:21Anything else?
05:22That was our longest.
05:23Otherwise, we were fives and sixes as well.
05:25Lots of fives and sixes.
05:26All right.
05:27Five apiece, and it's Gary's letters game.
05:30Gary?
05:31Right.
05:32Hello, Rachel.
05:32Hi, Gary.
05:33Good.
05:33Can I have a continent, please?
05:36Start with V.
05:37And another one.
05:39G.
05:40And vowel.
05:41A.
05:43A consonant.
05:45T.
05:47Another consonant.
05:50R.
05:51Vowel.
05:53O.
05:55A consonant.
05:57Y.
05:59Another vowel.
06:01E.
06:03And a consonant.
06:04And lastly, W.
06:06Stand by.
06:09BEEPING
06:10A consonant.
06:41MUSIC CONTINUES
06:42MUSIC CONTINUES
07:12Thank you, Jamie. One from the top row and five little ones coming up.
07:17And the first numbers game of the day is 10, 8, 10, 3, 5 and 75.
07:24And the target, 604.
07:276-0-4.
07:28MUSIC CONTINUES
07:59Jamie, 604. Gary?
08:02Yeah, 604. Jamie?
08:0475 times 8. 600.
08:0710 over 10 is 1. Yep.
08:09Add to the 3 and then add it on to 600.
08:12604, lovely. And Gary?
08:14Yeah, I did it slightly different.
08:16It's 8 times 75 is 600.
08:20600 again.
08:2110 divided by 5 is 2. Yep.
08:2410 into 10 is 1.
08:26Oh, I'm afraid you've just used your...
08:29Yeah, I used the 10 twice.
08:30Oh, sugar.
08:31Bad luck.
08:32Sorry, Gary.
08:33Bad luck.
08:35All right.
08:35So it's 22 points to 5.
08:37And we now turn to our first tea time teaser.
08:41It's a cool bet.
08:43And the clue, it's a shoe-in.
08:44In fact, the eyes have it.
08:46It's a shoe-in.
08:48In fact, the eyes have it.
09:06Welcome back.
09:07I left you with the clue.
09:08It's a shoe-in.
09:09In fact, the eyes have it.
09:10And the answer, very cleverly,
09:13is bootlays.
09:14Bootlays.
09:15There we go.
09:16Gary, good luck with this letters game.
09:18Right, thank you.
09:19A consonant, please, Rachel.
09:21Thank you, Gary.
09:22G.
09:23And another one.
09:25S.
09:26And another one.
09:28R.
09:30And a vowel.
09:32U.
09:33And another one.
09:35E.
09:36And a vowel.
09:39I.
09:40G.
09:41And another vowel.
09:43A.
09:45And a consonant.
09:47W.
09:48And another consonant.
09:51And the last one.
09:52M.
09:53Stand by.
09:54I.
09:55And a vowel.
09:55I.
09:56I.
10:12I.
10:17I.
10:25Gary, an eight.
10:26An eight.
10:27An eight.
10:28I think this might be the same eight.
10:30Gary, swearing.
10:31Yes, same one.
10:32Okey-dokey.
10:32That's good.
10:34Very good.
10:37Helen.
10:38We got swearing as well.
10:39That was eight.
10:40And then there were quite a few sevens you could have had.
10:42Not that you want that if you've got an eight,
10:44but things like wingers and a raising.
10:46I don't think we came up with any more eights.
10:48No, no, we didn't.
10:49It's a good one.
10:50That was our one, a swearing in the corner.
10:52Swearing in the corner.
10:54Indeed.
10:5530 plays 13, and it's Jamie's letters game.
10:58Jamie.
10:58Start of a consonant, please, Rachel.
11:00Thank you, Jamie.
11:01L.
11:02And another.
11:04R.
11:05And another.
11:07S.
11:08And a fourth.
11:10L.
11:11And a vowel.
11:13E.
11:14Vowel.
11:15A.
11:17And another vowel.
11:19I.
11:20A consonant.
11:23P.
11:24And a final consonant, please.
11:27And a final D.
11:29Stand by.
11:30music.
11:43Teacher.
11:43And aimport.
11:51impacto. They
11:51.isations.
11:52All right.
11:53мин Call.
11:54struggle. să
11:59.frage
12:00whisper إ
12:01Jamie.
12:01Try an eight.
12:03Gary.
12:04Seven.
12:05Seven, you're seven?
12:06Spilled.
12:08Now then.
12:09Pillared.
12:11Oh, I think I should be fine.
12:13A pillared hallway.
12:14Absolutely fine.
12:14Very good indeed.
12:15Yeah.
12:16And?
12:17We had pillars, which was seven, but you did better than that.
12:20And dahlias.
12:22Dahlias, yes, people who dilly-dally.
12:25That was there for eight.
12:26And also parsleyed as well.
12:28You can spell it E-Y-E-D or I-E-D.
12:32If it's garnished with parsley, it's parsleyed.
12:34That's another eight.
12:35And hold on.
12:36Hold on.
12:38What have you been up to?
12:40Spiral.
12:41Oh, excellent.
12:47Spiral.
12:49Wow, wow, wow.
12:5038 plays 13.
12:51And it's Gary's numbers game.
12:54Gary.
12:54OK.
12:55Could I have one large one, Rachel, and five wee ones?
12:58Thank you, Gary.
12:59One large, five wee.
13:01And the wee ones are seven, five, four, six, four.
13:08And the big one, 100.
13:10And your target, 813.
13:12813.
13:14813.
13:14813.
13:15813.
13:15813.
13:30813.
13:45813.
13:46813.
13:47813.
13:49813.
13:51813.
13:55813.
13:56is 13. Nice and straightforward.
13:58Perfect. 8-1-3.
14:00Yes, same way. There we go.
14:02Yeah, that's it. Well done.
14:06So,
14:07Jim, our 48 plays Gary on 23.
14:10As we turn to Helen, and you've
14:11entertained us in the past with great showbiz
14:13stories. Ain't anybody cool recently?
14:16Maybe, maybe.
14:18It was a chance meeting,
14:19actually, with an old friend.
14:21I was standing outside a bar in Soho in London
14:24and he strolled past and we sort of
14:26reconnected. And
14:27my friend had been hired to
14:29make a film with the Rolling Stones
14:32on their new exhibition, which opened
14:34this year at the Saatchi Gallery,
14:35about their 50-plus years in the business.
14:38And he was looking for an interviewer
14:40to go and
14:41interview them. So I thought about it for
14:43well, two seconds, I think.
14:45I think it was, and volunteered my services.
14:48So it was amazing. We were
14:50there for the premiere and the opening night
14:52at the Saatchi Gallery. And
14:54hung out with the band and interviewed them.
14:56And I've loved the Stones music all
14:58my life. I mean, it was an honour to
15:00meet them. And they were just brilliant.
15:02Ronnie still sees himself as the newcomer,
15:04even though he's been in the band
15:0540-something years.
15:07Very entertaining, really
15:09amusing, great fun, and very excited
15:11about the birth of his twins.
15:13Keith was just Keith.
15:14Turned up looking super cool in his
15:17top hat and shoes that didn't
15:18match, just to keep us all on our toes.
15:21Charlie still doesn't
15:22really get the whole celebrity and fame
15:25thing and says he'd much rather just be playing
15:27in the local club because it's not as loud as
15:28the stadiums. He just loves his drums.
15:31And Mick was brilliant, very charming.
15:33And it also put a lot of time and effort into
15:36making the exhibition what it was.
15:38And just seemed really proud to show it off.
15:41So it was amazing.
15:42It was a great job to do.
15:44Just one of those ones that you'll always
15:46remember, really.
15:47They're smart, aren't they?
15:49They're very smart.
15:49And they've surrounded themselves by
15:52amazing talent.
15:53You know, they've collaborated, for
15:54example, on their album covers with
15:56some of the best artists in the world.
15:58And their costumes are designed by some of
16:00the best fashion designers in the world.
16:02It's all been a collaboration.
16:03You know, they see their career very much
16:05as ongoing.
16:06They surround themselves by amazing people
16:08and amazing talent.
16:09Mick's my age, early 70s, 72, I think.
16:13Look at that guy.
16:14He's so fit.
16:15He's extraordinary.
16:16And, you know, they put on a great,
16:18great show.
16:19Yeah, they've got a lot of energy.
16:21And he is.
16:22He's fit.
16:23I mean, he's all muscle and all lean.
16:24Just like you, Nick.
16:25I wish.
16:26Thank you very much, Helen.
16:28Marvellous stuff.
16:31And now, Jamie, let us go.
16:34I have a consonant for you, Rachel.
16:35Thank you, Jamie.
16:36X.
16:37And another.
16:39S.
16:41And a vowel.
16:43E.
16:44And a consonant.
16:46H.
16:47And another consonant.
16:49B.
16:50And a vowel.
16:52I.
16:53Another vowel.
16:55U.
16:56Consonant.
16:58S.
16:59And a final consonant, please.
17:01And a final R.
17:04Stand by.
17:05We'll see you next time.
17:08We'll see you next time.
17:08We'll see you next time.
17:16We'll see you next time.
17:19We'll see you next time.
17:20We'll see you next time.
17:20We'll see you next time.
17:20We'll see you next time.
17:21We'll see you next time.
17:21We'll see you next time.
17:22We'll see you next time.
17:22We'll see you next time.
17:22We'll see you next time.
17:23We'll see you next time.
17:23We'll see you next time.
17:23We'll see you next time.
17:24We'll see you next time.
17:24We'll see you next time.
17:25We'll see you next time.
17:25We'll see you next time.
17:26We'll see you next time.
17:26We'll see you next time.
17:27We'll see you next time.
17:32We'll see you next time.
17:35Yes, Jamie?
17:36Seven.
17:37Seven, Gary?
17:38Seven for me as well.
17:40Thank you, Jamie.
17:41Bruises.
17:42And Gary?
17:43Bushier.
17:44Bushier.
17:45Very good.
17:46Very good, yeah.
17:47Bushier.
17:48What have we got?
17:50I was just tossing up quite a few sevens.
17:52I think brushes is in there.
17:53Brushes.
17:54Brushes is in there.
17:55And we had those two as well.
17:57Bruises and bushier.
17:58Do you have any more?
17:59No.
18:00I have a few sevens.
18:02All right.
18:02And Gary?
18:04Letters game?
18:06Okay.
18:06Consonant, please, Rachel.
18:08Thank you, Gary.
18:09F.
18:10And another one?
18:12S.
18:13And another one?
18:15P.
18:16And a vowel?
18:18A.
18:20And another one?
18:21I.
18:23And another one?
18:25A.
18:27And a consonant?
18:29R.
18:30And another consonant?
18:33S.
18:34And a vowel?
18:35And the last one.
18:37O.
18:38Stand by.
18:39And a vowel?
18:58And a vowel?
19:00And a vowel?
19:01And a vowel?
19:01And a vowel?
19:02And a vowel?
19:02And a vowel?
19:03And a vowel?
19:05And a vowel?
19:05And a vowel?
19:07And a vowel?
19:08And a vowel?
19:09And a vowel?
19:10Gary?
19:10Just a five, and that one.
19:12A five, Jamie?
19:14And just a five as well.
19:15Carry on, Gary.
19:16Fares.
19:18And pears.
19:20Pears, can we beat five, please?
19:23There is...
19:24Oh, you know we have psoriasis.
19:26There is a word that is related to that, which is psoriasis,
19:31and they are skin diseases characterised by scabs or scales,
19:35usually with itching, so directly linked with psoriasis.
19:38And that would give you a six, but very tough.
19:42Thank you very much.
19:4360 plays, 35, and now, Jamie, it's your numbers again.
19:47One large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:49Thank you, Jamie.
19:50One large, five little ones coming up again.
19:52And this time your little ones are three, ten, two, eight, and six,
19:59and the big one, 50.
20:01And this target, 799.
20:05799.
20:36Well, Jamie.
20:37That's 799.
20:39Gary?
20:40Yeah, 799 as well.
20:41Jamie?
20:4210 plus 6, 16.
20:44Yep.
20:45Times 50.
20:46800.
20:47And three minus two.
20:48He's the one lovely.
20:50Gary?
20:50Yeah, same.
20:52There we go.
20:5770 plays, 45, as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser, which is gas-aligned,
21:03and the clue, had several business transactions with the croupier, perhaps.
21:08Had several business transactions with the croupier, perhaps.
21:28One welcome back.
21:29I left you with a clue.
21:30Had several business transactions with the croupier, perhaps.
21:33And the answer is dealings.
21:37Dealings.
21:38Get it?
21:39Dealings.
21:4070 plays, 45.
21:41Jamie on 17.
21:42It's Gary's letters game.
21:45Consonant, please, Rachel.
21:46Thank you, Gary.
21:47T.
21:48And another one.
21:50P.
21:51And another one.
21:53N.
21:55And a vowel.
21:57I.
21:58And another one.
22:00E.
22:01And another one.
22:03A.
22:04And a consonant.
22:07Q.
22:08O.
22:09And another one.
22:11L.
22:12And a vowel.
22:14And the last one.
22:15O.
22:16Stand by.
22:18A.
22:19A.
22:19A.
22:21A.
22:49Yes, Gary?
22:50Seven.
22:50Of seven, Jamie?
22:52No, seven.
22:53Gary?
22:54Elation.
22:55And?
22:55Same word, yeah.
22:56Both elated.
22:56That's good stuff.
22:57Anybody else?
22:59Toenail.
23:00For seven.
23:03One toenail.
23:04You can have pantile as well, be sort of S-shaped, curved roof tile.
23:09Indeed, yeah.
23:09That's it?
23:10Yeah.
23:11All right.
23:1277 to 52.
23:14Still all to play for.
23:15Jamie, let us game.
23:17Start over consonant, please, Rachel.
23:19Thank you, Jamie.
23:19And a vowel.
23:22I.
23:23And another.
23:24E.
23:26And a third.
23:27U.
23:29And a consonant.
23:30L.
23:31And another.
23:33D.
23:34And another.
23:36N.
23:36And a vowel.
23:40O.
23:41And a final consonant, please.
23:43And lastly, S.
23:45And here comes the countdown clock.
24:13MUSIC PLAYS
24:16Jamie. I'll try an A.
24:20Gary. Seven.
24:22You're seven.
24:23My jewels.
24:25Now then, Jamie.
24:26I might have spelled this wrong.
24:27Emulsion.
24:28Can you say that again for me?
24:30Emulsion.
24:30Emulsion. How are you spelling it?
24:32E-M-U-L-S-I-O-N.
24:34Perfect. Yeah.
24:35Very, very good.
24:36Well, the paint.
24:37Emulsion paint.
24:42Well done.
24:42What does emulsion mean, actually?
24:44Emulsion, I always think about paint, obviously.
24:48Yeah.
24:48Em, I'll give you the exact definition.
24:52It is a fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another.
24:57Or a type of paint used for walls consisting of pigment bound in a synthetic resin.
25:02It's all about forming emulsion with water, basically.
25:05Particles mixing with water.
25:06Well done, Jamie.
25:07What have we got there, Helen?
25:09It's a good selection, I thought.
25:10There are a couple of eights hiding in there.
25:12Modulise.
25:13Yes.
25:13And also unsoiled.
25:15Unsoiled.
25:16Well done.
25:17All right.
25:1785 then.
25:18Well done, Jamie.
25:19Against the Gary's 52.
25:21But, you know, it's not lost yet.
25:24But, Susie, what about your origins of words to give Gary and Jamie a bit of a rest?
25:29Yes.
25:30A rest, but they're certainly showing stamina, which is the word that I wanted to talk about
25:35today.
25:36I'm going to talk about weaving, first of all, and the warp in a loom, which is a series
25:41of threads running lengthways over and under which the weft is passed.
25:46And in Latin, this warp of cloth was called a stamen.
25:50And it developed the transferred sense of a thread in both the divine as well as a human
25:56sense.
25:57So in mythology, you know about the three fates, and they're pictured as spinners of threads.
26:02And the first spins a thread, the thread of men's lives, or women's lives, obviously.
26:08The second measures them, and the third cuts them off.
26:12So these mortal threads were known as the plural of stamen, which was stamina.
26:18And when stamina was borrowed into English in the 7th century, it took on both the divine
26:24sense and also the textile sense of the word.
26:27The warp, that's the foundation of a textile as it's being woven, and also the threads
26:31of life spun by the three fates that determines the duration of a person's existence.
26:37And, of course, life depends very much on endurance and staying power, which is how
26:43stamina moved from a plural to a singular, and to the idea, really, of the ability to
26:49endure.
26:50So that was how stamina began, with the three fates and their spinning.
26:54And, of course, spinning was such a crucial, crucial industry.
26:56Now, as I said before, spinsters were originally simply women who spun for a living.
27:01They had no husband that they could rely on for their income, and so they were forced
27:06to spin night and day in order to make an income.
27:11And because they were unmarried and didn't have the husband, it sort of shifted sense,
27:15and still used in a slightly derogatory sense, spinster, but was once very literally a spinner
27:20of thread.
27:27So good, Susie.
27:29That's wonderful.
27:3185 to 52.
27:32Jamie in the lead, and it's Gary's letters game.
27:35Gary.
27:35OK.
27:36Vowel, please, Rachel.
27:37Thank you, Gary.
27:38O.
27:39And another one.
27:40E.
27:41And another one.
27:43U.
27:44And a consonant.
27:46N.
27:47And another one.
27:49R.
27:50And another one.
27:52T.
27:53A vowel.
27:55A.
27:56Another vowel.
27:59E.
28:00And a consonant.
28:02And lastly, N.
28:05Done by.
28:06OK.
28:07One.
28:09One.
28:35Andisi.
28:37Yes, Gary?
28:38A six.
28:38A six. Jamie?
28:40A six.
28:41Gary?
28:41A tenner.
28:43And nature.
28:46Now, what have we got in the corner?
28:48We've got a seven. We've got neuron.
28:51Yes.
28:51And I think there may have been another seven in there, was there?
28:53Yes, there is neonate, which pops up on countdown from time to time.
28:58A newborn child or other mammal also used,
29:00or particularly used in the nursing industry by midwives,
29:04they talk about a neonate is less than four weeks old.
29:08It's a neonate.
29:09All right.
29:1091 to 58, and it's Jamie's letters game.
29:13Final one.
29:14Start with a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:16Thank you, Jamie.
29:17T.
29:17And another.
29:20D.
29:21And a third.
29:23C.
29:24And a vowel.
29:26U.
29:27And another.
29:28E.
29:29And a consonant.
29:32B.
29:32And another consonant.
29:35D.
29:36And a vowel.
29:38I.
29:39And a final vowel, please.
29:40And a final A.
29:43Countdown.
29:44Back to theaven.
30:11That's great.
30:13We'll see you next time.
30:14Jamie? Eight. Gary? Five. And that five? Abide. Abide? Abducted? Abducted, yeah. Very good. Very good indeed. Yep. Abducted. Yep.
30:28Helen? Abduct and addict, so only six for me.
30:33Susie? There is, I was just talking about pregnancy, actually, there with the neonate. Decidua is there as well. D
30:40-E-C-I-D-U-A, which is all about the lining of the uterus during pregnancy, which is shed
30:46after birth. That is the decidua. Oh, right.
30:51Linked into deciduous trees with the idea of falling off. Falling away, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I understand. All right.
30:5799, please. 58. And now, Gary, it's the final numbers game.
31:03Okay, Rachel, one large one and five wee ones again, please. Thank you, Gary. One large five wee coming up
31:09for you. And for the final time today, the numbers are six, three, five, nine, six, and the large one,
31:17100. And the last target, 277.
31:20Two, seven, seven.
31:49Two, seven, seven.
31:52Gary?
31:53No, two, seven, six.
31:54Two, seven, six. Jamie?
31:56Two, seven, seven.
31:58And two, seven, seven. Jamie?
31:59100 minus six, 94.
32:0294.
32:03Times by three.
32:05282.
32:06And take with five.
32:07Perfect.
32:08Two, seven, seven.
32:11Well done.
32:13Well done, indeed.
32:15Look, you've gone crashing through the, uh, through the 100.
32:18100, 109.
32:19Well done, Gary, but you're up against what looks like an octo champ, actually.
32:23But let's see how he does in the, um, final round.
32:26Fingers on buzzers, please.
32:28Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:00No, not even from an Octo-Champ.
33:04No, this must be difficult. Let's see what the audience has got to say for itself.
33:10Do I see a forest of hands? I do see a few, actually. Yes, sir.
33:14Is it glassware?
33:15Glassware. Let's see whether you're right.
33:18There it goes. Glassware. Very good.
33:26Now, Jamie, call yourself an Octo-Champ.
33:30I'll come back to you in a minute.
33:31First of all, I want to thank Gary McInerney and congratulate you, too, because that's a good score.
33:3758. Well done.
33:38He's a great player. No, he really is.
33:40Isn't he a good player?
33:40Yeah, he is, indeed.
33:41A very good player. But hold on. Let's concentrate on you.
33:44Back to Emmy Vale in County Monaghan.
33:46Yeah, that's it.
33:46With this goodie bag and our very best wishes.
33:49Oh, thanks. Great to visit you.
33:50Excellent. All right.
33:52Now then, young man, we're casting you adrift now until the finals when you're coming back.
33:58Just got pipped, but you're number two seed.
34:00That's brilliant, yeah.
34:01It's fantastic. And you've been a brilliant player, a charming player.
34:04You come and see us in the finals.
34:06I will do. I really do.
34:07All right. We'll see you then. Well done.
34:08See you tomorrow.
34:09Helen and Susie, too. We look forward to that.
34:13Brilliant stuff.
34:14It's scary to think, Jamie, we'll be back before Christmas.
34:17I've only just said goodbye to summer.
34:18We're thinking about December finals.
34:20Indeed.
34:21Keep practising.
34:22I will.
34:23See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.
34:25See you tomorrow. Same time, same place. You be sure of it.
34:28Two more players. Two new players. Good afternoon.
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