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00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio. We're heading into the weekend.
00:36And my word, if you're a fan of 90s pop music, now's the time to get yourself down to the Business Design Centre in Islington in London,
00:43because guess what? There's a huge exhibition about the Spice Girls.
00:49It's a big exhibition. They've even got the bus that was in their film there, and all the sort of costumes and all the rest of it.
00:56Go on, then. Tell me why they're so great.
00:58You've not pre-booked your ticket? No.
01:01They're iconic, aren't they? I mean, I can still now picture the Union Jack outfit and some of the leopard print and the sporty stuff.
01:08And for little girls at the time, they were the first kind of girl power.
01:11I think this is the point. Did they have a male fan base, or was it really a...
01:17If you asked David Beckham, I think he would be a member of that male fan base,
01:22but probably for different reasons than the little girls like them.
01:24Possibly, but it was essentially a girl fan base, I guess.
01:29But nonetheless, listen, they were a huge success, as you say, quite rightly,
01:33and they did break some mould along the way, so there we are.
01:37I'll get us two tickets, Nick. We'll have a little day out in London.
01:40Yes, I'm on for that, always.
01:42Who have we got with us? We've got Bob Lunt. He's back, now retired from Rotherham.
01:46A minister, a missionary, out in northern Argentina for many years.
01:51You're very welcome here, back again. Two good wins, well done.
01:54And you're joined by Alex Eyre, a finance contractor from London.
01:58He's a bit of a skater and a snowboarder.
02:01Skateboarding.
02:02Skateboarding, right.
02:03Huge fan of it, so always have been.
02:06Why?
02:07It's just the best way. You can do more on it, so more jumps and more off-piste.
02:12Right, and you said that your second day out, you did a 20-foot jump, which is not bad, is it?
02:19Second week, yeah, and luckily landed it just about.
02:23Well done, all right.
02:24Well, let's have a big round of applause then for Bob and Alex Eyre.
02:32And Susie's over in the corner.
02:34And so, for his final time on this stint anyway, sports presenter John Inverdale.
02:39Welcome back, John.
02:44I've got it. I have a bit of a bone to pick with a few snowboarders there.
02:47Go on.
02:48I just think there's a...
02:50Snowboarders can be more reckless and, as a consequence, more dangerous on the slopes than skiers.
02:56Well, they take you out more easily.
02:57They sure do.
02:58I say that from personal experience, having been wiped out by a snowboarder once,
03:02as a consequence of which I spent a night in hospital in France.
03:06Oh, really?
03:07So I've always had a thing about them.
03:09But I wish you good luck today, Alex, nonetheless.
03:12Well done, John. All right.
03:13Now, Bob, take us away.
03:15It's your letters game.
03:17Hello, Rachel.
03:18Hi again, Bob.
03:19Consonant, please.
03:20Thank you. Start today with N.
03:23And a second.
03:25S.
03:26And a third.
03:28F.
03:30A vowel, please.
03:32E.
03:33And another.
03:34I.
03:35And another.
03:37E.
03:38Consonant.
03:40R.
03:41Consonant.
03:45And a consonant, please.
03:47And T.
03:49And here's the countdown clock.
04:15Well, Bob?
04:17Seven.
04:18A seven.
04:19Alex?
04:20Seven as well.
04:21Bob?
04:22Refines.
04:24Alex?
04:25Refines.
04:26Same.
04:28And in the corner, John and Susie?
04:30Refines.
04:31That's it.
04:32But we also have re-infest as an eight.
04:34Very good.
04:35Alex, we're off.
04:37Your letters game.
04:39Could I start with a consonant, please?
04:41Thank you, Sam.
04:42Could I start with a consonant, please?
04:45Start with M.
04:46And a vowel.
04:48O.
04:49Consonant.
04:51D.
04:53Vowel.
04:54E.
04:56Consonant.
04:58M.
04:59Another consonant.
05:01N.
05:03A vowel.
05:05O.
05:06A second vowel.
05:09E.
05:10Could I finish with a consonant, please?
05:12And finish with P.
05:14Stand by.
05:40Alex?
05:41A six.
05:42A six.
05:43Bob?
05:44Six.
05:45Alex?
05:46Mooned.
05:47Mooned and?
05:48Also mooned.
05:49Mooned.
05:50Any more mooning over there?
05:51We've got monopede.
05:52As a single-legged beast.
05:53Creature, animal, person, yes.
05:54Yep.
05:55A monopede.
05:56A monopede.
05:57Same as a monoped.
05:58Exactly.
05:59Yep.
06:00Thank you for that.
06:09Thank you for that.
06:1013 apiece, and it's Bob's numbers game.
06:13Bob?
06:14One large and five small, please, Rachel.
06:16Thank you, Bob.
06:17One from the top, five little, and the first numbers game of the day
06:21is two, six, three,
06:25another two, ten and a big one, 50,
06:28and this target, 302.
06:31302.
06:40Yes, Bob?
06:41302.
06:43And Alex?
06:45302 as well.
06:47Bob, what's the target?
06:4960.
06:5060.
06:5160.
06:5260.
06:5360.
06:5460.
06:5560.
06:5660.
06:5760.
06:5860.
06:5960.
07:0060.
07:0160.
07:0260.
07:0360.
07:0460.
07:0560.
07:0660.
07:0760.
07:0860.
07:0960.
07:10Bob, off you go.
07:1150 times six.
07:12300.
07:13Plus two.
07:14No need to write that down yet.
07:15And Alex?
07:16The same way.
07:17Very good.
07:18So it's 23 apiece as we turn to our first tea time teaser,
07:21which is Bert's pain, and the clue...
07:24Bert's pain was caused by him accidentally sticking this into himself.
07:29Bert's pain was caused by him accidentally sticking this into himself.
07:38APPLAUSE
07:50Welcome back. Warm welcome back. I left you with the clue.
07:53Bert's pain was caused by him accidentally sticking this into himself.
07:58What did he stick into himself?
08:00He stuck a breast pin into himself, accidentally. Breast pin.
08:05So it's 23 apiece. Alex, your letters game.
08:09I'll start with the consonant, please.
08:11Thank you, Alex.
08:13T
08:14And a vowel.
08:16U
08:17Another consonant.
08:19C
08:20Another vowel.
08:22E
08:23A consonant.
08:25V
08:27Vowel.
08:29U
08:30Consonant.
08:32S
08:34Consonant.
08:36Y
08:37And I'll finish with another consonant, please.
08:40And finish with N.
08:42And the clock starts now.
09:04CLOCK TICKS
09:15Alex?
09:16Five.
09:17And Bob?
09:18Five.
09:19Alex?
09:20Unset.
09:21And Bob?
09:22Tunes.
09:23Yep.
09:24It's funny how you said that as well,
09:26that only someone of a certain age would have said it like that,
09:29because it was the advert all those years ago.
09:32We've come up with cutesy.
09:34Yes.
09:35Which is six.
09:36Anything else, Susie?
09:37Bit cutesy, bit schmaltzy. No, that was our best for six.
09:39Thank you. 28 apiece.
09:41And it's Bob's letters game now. Bob?
09:45Consonant, please, Rachel.
09:47Thank you, Bob.
09:48X
09:49And a second.
09:51S
09:52And a third.
09:54P
09:56A vowel, please.
09:58A
09:59And another.
10:00E
10:01And another.
10:03O
10:04Consonant.
10:07N
10:09Consonant.
10:11R
10:13And a consonant, please.
10:15And the last one, G.
10:17Stand by.
10:31MUSIC PLAYS
10:49Well, Bob?
10:50Seven.
10:51A seven. Alex?
10:52Just a six.
10:54And your six is?
10:55Person.
10:56Person. Bob?
10:58Persona.
11:00Persona.
11:01Very good.
11:02Yes.
11:03I was going to say to Alex, just add one more letter on the end of it,
11:06but not the X.
11:08And we also had oranges for seven.
11:10Oranges.
11:11The six was there, wasn't it? Paeans.
11:14Yes.
11:15Staring at us, actually, but it was only six.
11:17What a shame.
11:1835 to 28.
11:20Bob has taken his lead and it's Alex we turn to.
11:22Now, then, Alex.
11:23Please, could I have three large and three small, please?
11:26You can, indeed. Thank you, Alex.
11:28I'll take three a little.
11:30And the three small ones are ten, nine and two.
11:34And the three large, 75, 50 and 25.
11:38And the target, 330.
11:40330.
11:42MUSIC PLAYS
11:59MUSIC STOPS
12:14Alex?
12:15334, not written down.
12:17Bob?
12:18332, not written down.
12:21So, Bob?
12:2325 plus nine.
12:2525 plus nine, 34.
12:27340.
12:28Yeah, I think I've gone wrong.
12:30Oh, sorry, Bob.
12:31Bad luck, Bob.
12:32Alex, your shot.
12:34Ten minus two.
12:36Ten minus two is eight.
12:37Times 50.
12:38400.
12:39Minus 75.
12:41325.
12:42Plus nine.
12:43Yep.
12:44Three, three, four, four away.
12:46Haven't used any of those.
12:47You've got a winner there. Well done.
12:49But, Rachel, you're going to unscramble this for us.
12:51330.
12:53Yes, it was there.
12:54If you say 75 minus nine is 66,
12:58and then 50 divided by ten is five,
13:02and times them together, 330.
13:04Well done, Rachel, well done.
13:06APPLAUSE
13:08However, the good news is, from Alex's point of view,
13:11is that you're level again, 35 apiece,
13:14as we turn to John.
13:16Now, John, what other extraordinary events are you going to talk about?
13:22Well, I'm sure if people have been watching all week,
13:24they'll be saying, you know, we can't possibly go to California
13:26and we can't possibly go to some of these exotic places.
13:28I've got a couple of places that you might like to go
13:30to mix in a bit of travel with sport,
13:32but then I'll end with a rather more British prosaic thing
13:35that's much more realistic for us all to actually do.
13:37So we haven't been thinking about Asia much over the past week,
13:41so there's a couple of events that I can see...
13:43I can certainly see Susie doing one of them,
13:46and that's the World Space Out Championship
13:50that takes place in Seoul every year.
13:52And it's in the middle of the Korean capital,
13:54in this huge great park, and all these people just sit there,
13:57and what it is, you're not allowed to talk, to eat, to sleep,
14:02to play any electronic device, whatever,
14:05and the winner is the person who has the most regular heartbeat
14:09throughout that 90 minutes.
14:11So it's almost like competitive meditation.
14:13But I think we could all do with that, and I think that's quite cool.
14:16I quite like that.
14:18And on the other end of the scale,
14:20you've got the World Underwater Kissing Championships,
14:22which take place in Shanghai. Imagine that.
14:24No.
14:26You had to think about that, didn't you?
14:29The world record for that stands at one minute, 20 seconds.
14:32That's a long kiss. Underwater, that's a very long kiss.
14:36I mean, that strikes me as that's quite dangerous,
14:38but not as dangerous as the World Sauna Championships,
14:41which actually got ditched eight years or so ago
14:43when somebody died as a result of it.
14:45So that was actually quite serious.
14:47I'm going to come back to something much more down-to-earth
14:49and saying the sporting year is not over
14:51to prove there is more to life than the start of the new football season
14:54in a couple of weeks, Rachel,
14:56and that is that you can go to the World Conquer Championships,
14:59which take place in Northamptonshire
15:01in the second week of October every year.
15:04And you might think, oh, yeah, what's that about?
15:06I couldn't believe it. I confess I'd never been.
15:08And reading about it, I think I probably ought to just go.
15:11Thousands and thousands and thousands of people attend this.
15:14This is desperately serious stuff.
15:16And people bring their Conquers from all over the world.
15:20And it's amazing. When you look at the Hall of Fame,
15:22you go on the web and look at a list of winners
15:24over the past 40 or 50 years.
15:26It looks like a list of winners' orders
15:29from Wimbledon or the Open Golf Championship or something,
15:32with all these guys from countries all over the world.
15:35And the actual event itself is very, very strictly administered,
15:39and any kind of foul play is frowned on.
15:42And there's all sorts of penalty shoot-out rules
15:44if you don't smash the other person's nuts, so to speak.
15:47So I just think that if nothing else over the past five days,
15:51it's proved that for all of us, whether here in the studio
15:54or watching at home, there's a world title in all of us
15:57if we're prepared to go out there somewhere in the world and find it
16:01and train hard enough for it.
16:03And it's given you a few ideas for a few weekends away as well.
16:06Brilliant. Thanks so much, John.
16:08APPLAUSE
16:10Thank you. 35 apiece.
16:12Now, Bob, your letters again.
16:15Consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Bob.
16:18P
16:19And a second.
16:21R
16:22And a third.
16:24S
16:25A vowel, please.
16:27A
16:28And another vowel.
16:30O
16:31And a third vowel.
16:32A
16:33Consonant.
16:35H
16:36Consonant.
16:38R
16:40And a vowel.
16:42And a last one.
16:43I
16:44Stand by.
17:10Yes, Bob?
17:17Seven.
17:18A seven. Alex?
17:19Just a five.
17:21And your five is?
17:22Hairs.
17:23Now, Bob?
17:24Pariahs.
17:25Well done. Excellent.
17:27Pretty good.
17:28Pretty good.
17:29Yeah.
17:30Can we match that, John?
17:31I confess we were being slightly distracted during that round
17:34because I was having to explain to Susie how to play conkers
17:37because she's never seen a game in her life.
17:39Can you believe that?
17:40Anyway, so the best we came up with was pariahs as well.
17:43Well done.
17:44Yeah.
17:45That's it, Susie?
17:46That's it.
17:47Now, 42 to 35.
17:48Bob back in the lead and it's Alex we turn to.
17:50Yes, Alex?
17:51I'll start with a consonant, please.
17:53Thank you, Alex.
17:54D
17:55And another.
17:57N
17:58And a vowel, please.
18:00A
18:01Another vowel.
18:02U
18:04A consonant.
18:05T
18:07A vowel.
18:09O
18:10A consonant.
18:12R
18:14A vowel.
18:17A
18:18And I'll finish with a consonant, please.
18:21And finish with L.
18:23Don't, don't.
18:36MUSIC PLAYS
18:55Yes, Alex?
18:57Seven.
18:58A seven, Bob?
18:59Seven.
19:00Alex?
19:01Outland.
19:02Outland and...
19:03Natural.
19:04And natural.
19:05And that's who we've got.
19:06I thought we were going to get a nine there without lander,
19:08but it was an A, not an E.
19:10So, seven was the best we had, I think.
19:13It's an eight, actually.
19:14Last one, an eight.
19:15Somebody who adulates or worships is an adulator.
19:18That is their fate.
19:20APPLAUSE
19:22Well done.
19:23Well done, Susie.
19:25So, only seven points in it.
19:2649 to 42.
19:27Bob still in the lead.
19:29And now, Bob, it's your numbers game.
19:31One large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:33Stick with what you know, thank you, Bob.
19:35One from the top, five little.
19:36And this time around, they are three, seven, four,
19:41another three, two, and a large and 100.
19:45And your target, 233.
19:47Two, three, three.
19:49MUSIC PLAYS
20:03MUSIC STOPS
20:21Yes, Bob?
20:22233.
20:23Alex?
20:24233 as well.
20:26Not quite properly written down.
20:28Well, let's go with you first, then. Alex?
20:30Yep.
20:31100 times two?
20:32100.
20:33And then seven plus four?
20:3511.
20:36Times three?
20:3733.
20:38And add that one.
20:39Marvellous.
20:40233.
20:41And Bob?
20:42Exactly the same way.
20:43Same way?
20:44Yeah.
20:45APPLAUSE
20:47So, 59 to 52, still have seven points.
20:51And now it's time for our second Tea Time teaser.
20:54And the teaser is Pete Close.
20:57And the clue?
20:58Pete saw things from a close viewpoint, thanks to this.
21:01Pete saw things from a close viewpoint, thanks to this.
21:05MUSIC PLAYS
21:13APPLAUSE
21:21Welcome back, welcome back. I left you with the clue.
21:24Pete saw things from a close viewpoint, thanks to this.
21:27This being a telescope.
21:29Telescope.
21:30Telescope.
21:31So, 59 to 52, Bob just in the lead.
21:34Alex, your letters game.
21:37I'll start with a consonant, please.
21:39Thank you, Alex. B.
21:41And a vowel.
21:43E.
21:45A consonant.
21:47L.
21:49Vowel.
21:51O.
21:53Consonant.
21:55K.
21:56Another consonant.
21:58R.
21:59A vowel.
22:01A.
22:03Consonant.
22:05S.
22:07And a final consonant, please.
22:09And a final T.
22:11Stand by.
22:13MUSIC PLAYS
22:30MUSIC STOPS
22:44Alex.
22:46I'll go for a risky eight.
22:48And Bob?
22:49Eight.
22:50Alex.
22:51Bloaters.
22:52Yes, Bob.
22:53Also bloaters.
22:55Bloaters.
22:56Yeah, it's a fish, isn't it?
22:58Bloaters, yes.
22:59Yeah.
23:00What else have we got? John, Susie?
23:02Yes, I was looking for strokeable,
23:04but sadly you need two Es, you need an E in the middle,
23:07so you can't have that.
23:08Have sortable instead, that'll give you another eight.
23:11APPLAUSE
23:12Well done.
23:13So, 67 to 60.
23:15Alex on 60, and it's Bob we turn to now.
23:18Bob, letters game.
23:20A consonant, please, Rachel.
23:22Thank you, Bob.
23:23B.
23:25And a second.
23:27W.
23:28A third.
23:30S.
23:32A vowel, please.
23:34E.
23:35And another.
23:37I.
23:38And a third.
23:39E.
23:41Consonant.
23:43T.
23:45Consonant.
23:47L.
23:49And a consonant, please.
23:51And the last one, D.
23:53Stand by.
23:55ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
23:57ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
24:24Well, Bob?
24:2667.
24:28Alex?
24:29Just a five, I'm afraid.
24:31And your five is?
24:32Sweet.
24:33And Bob?
24:34Dewiest.
24:36Mm, very nice.
24:37Dewiest.
24:38Yep.
24:39You could have had wildest.
24:41And edibles was also in there.
24:44Very good.
24:4674 to 60, and Susie.
24:49What have you today in your wonderful origins of words
24:51that we love so much?
24:54We've got a question from Matt Collins,
24:57who wonders about the origin of having a beef with someone,
25:00or beefing about something,
25:02if you want to have a right old grumble and moan and complain.
25:06And if you go to the Oxfam English Dictionary,
25:09they are quite cautious with the etymology of this one,
25:12and they pretty much say it's unknown.
25:15So I had to turn to a friend, Mr Slang, we call him,
25:19Jonathan Green, who is the greatest chronicler of slang
25:23Anyway, he's got some ideas about this one,
25:25and I'm going to tell you what they are.
25:28First of all, you have to go back to an anonymous burglar's memoir
25:32that was published in New York in 1865.
25:35We know very little about this burglar, anonymous, as I say,
25:39but we do know that he was English
25:41and that he fled to New York from London.
25:43So he was on the run.
25:45And it was called Leaves from the Diary of a Celebrated Burglar.
25:48So he enjoyed his notoriety a little bit.
25:51And it says,
25:52with the intention of finding out whether he was likely to beef or not,
25:55Tom asked his sister how much his poke was up to.
25:59And poke here was a wallet, a pickpocketed wallet,
26:02and up to meant worth.
26:04In other words, he would only grass on an accomplice or a fellow thief
26:10depending on how much the wallet contained.
26:13That was the idea there.
26:15Apparently this is an amazing book, Leaves, by the way.
26:17It has given loads and loads of slang records to the Oxford English Dictionary.
26:21But going back to beef and the etymology of that,
26:24it seems to go back to the cry of hot beef.
26:27Now, hot beef you might have heard on the streets of London,
26:30again in the 19th century,
26:32and hot beef was rhyming slang for stop thief.
26:35And the idea was that stop thief was heard so often
26:38that people wouldn't take it very seriously.
26:40So if people said hot beef, hot beef, this was a new kind of trendy thing,
26:44people would take note.
26:46And that idea of beef, meaning an outcry or a commotion,
26:51then slipped into the language on its own.
26:53And to cry hot beef was to raise a hue and a cry,
26:56whether or not it had anything to do with a crime.
26:59From there it meant to raise an alarm, then to make a fuss,
27:01and then to shout, and the complaint sense followed that.
27:05So what the anonymous burglar was talking about when he was beefing
27:08goes back to that cry by street vendors, as they say in London in the 19th century.
27:13Hot beef.
27:15Very good.
27:20Wonderful. Thank you. Thanks, Susie.
27:22So, 74-60, Bob firmly in the lead at the moment
27:26as we turn to Alex, your letters game.
27:29I'll start with a consonant, please.
27:31Thank you, Alex. R
27:33And another?
27:35Q
27:37And another?
27:39S
27:40And a vowel?
27:42O
27:43A second?
27:45A
27:46And a third?
27:48E
27:49A consonant, please?
27:51F
27:53Another consonant?
27:55W
27:57And a final vowel, please?
28:01And a final A.
28:03Stand by.
28:13MUSIC PLAYS
28:35Alex?
28:36Six.
28:37Bob?
28:38Seven.
28:39Alex?
28:40Wafers.
28:41Foresaw.
28:43Foresaw, indeed, yeah.
28:45Those are the two words we've got written here.
28:47That's it.
28:48One for six, one for seven. Well done.
28:50Well done, indeed. 81-60.
28:52And, Bob, final letters game for you. Well played.
28:55A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:57Thank you, Bob. S
28:59A second?
29:01M
29:03And a third?
29:05S
29:07A vowel, please?
29:09And another?
29:11A
29:13And a third?
29:15I
29:16Consonant?
29:18L
29:19Consonant?
29:21M
29:23And a vowel, please?
29:26And the last one, E.
29:28Well done.
29:30MUSIC PLAYS
29:40MUSIC CONTINUES
30:01Well, Bob?
30:02Seven.
30:03A seven. Alex?
30:05Seven as well.
30:06Bob?
30:07Missile.
30:08Missile, yes. And similes?
30:10Similes.
30:11Very nice. Very nice.
30:12Yeah.
30:13Two good sevens.
30:14Both sevens. Missile, yeah. We've got aimless.
30:16Yeah.
30:17Was another seven. And we have an eight. Tell us.
30:20We do. Yes. Melismas.
30:23So anyone interested in choral music might know this.
30:26It's a group of notes sung to a single syllable of text.
30:30Example of the most poetic words can be given more emotive power
30:34by using melisma.
30:36Thank you for that.
30:38Melismas.
30:41And on to the final numbers game. For you, Alex.
30:45Three large and three small, please, Rachel.
30:47Thank you, Alex. The last one of the week.
30:49Three from the top, three from the bottom.
30:51And this round is two, nine, ten, 75, 50 and 25.
30:59And the last target, 521.
31:01521.
31:03Here we go.
31:34Alex.
31:35521, not written down.
31:37521, and Bob?
31:38521.
31:39Alex.
31:4150 times 10.
31:4350 times 10, 500.
31:4675 divided by 25.
31:493.
31:50And 9 minus 2.
31:529 minus 2 is 7.
31:54And multiply that by the 3.
31:5621. Well done.
31:57And Bob.
31:5850 times 10.
31:5950 times 10, 500.
32:019 times 2.
32:039 times 2, 18.
32:0575 over 25.
32:06Here's your 3.
32:07And add them all together.
32:08Lovely. Same result. Well done.
32:10Very good.
32:11APPLAUSE
32:14A good contest there.
32:16Bob on 98, Alex on 77.
32:19And we go into the final round.
32:21It's conundrum time, chaps, so fingers on buzzers.
32:24Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:27MUSIC PLAYS
32:58Alex.
32:59Flittering.
33:01What do we think?
33:02No.
33:04Be quick, Bob.
33:08There we are.
33:09Bad luck, you guys.
33:10Let's see whether the audience could...
33:12I see hands, I see forests, many hands.
33:14Madam.
33:15Fertility.
33:16Fertility. Let's see whether you're right.
33:19APPLAUSE
33:20Well done.
33:23Well done.
33:25So there we are.
33:27Bob comes through again.
33:29Third win, this time on 98, Bob.
33:31So well done.
33:32Great, good performance.
33:34Mind you, Alex put up a good old fight there.
33:3677's a good score.
33:38But today, not quite good enough.
33:40So you take this goodie bag back to London.
33:43You travel safely.
33:45Thank you very much indeed.
33:46Bob, see you on Monday.
33:48See you on Monday. Well done indeed.
33:50We won't be seeing John.
33:52But you come back,
33:53cos I think you're commentating on the Ryder Cup in France.
33:56Yeah, and there's a busy summer ahead,
33:58but I've obviously got to go off now and teach my dog to surf.
34:01That's the main thing.
34:02That's the main thing.
34:03And when you've done that, you've done the Ryder Cup,
34:05you come back and see us.
34:06I'll do that.
34:07Thank you so much.
34:08Always a pleasure to have you here.
34:10Susie, we'll see you on Monday.
34:11Peaceful weekend and...
34:13Rachel too.
34:14Yeah, and Bob should be able to borrow the teapot,
34:16he's winning teapot, because I think that was his wife
34:18who actually got the conundrum.
34:19So she'll have a mug together with the teapot.
34:21They're done.
34:22They're perfectly set for the weekend.
34:24Well done indeed.
34:25We'll see you on Monday.
34:26See you then.
34:27Join us then.
34:28Same time, same place.
34:29You'll be sure of it.
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