Countdown | Friday 7th September 2018 | Episode 6905
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34It's Friday, there's a great weekend coming up,
00:36particularly if you happen to be down in London,
00:38because it's the Great River Race.
00:40The Great River Race.
00:41It's an amazing thing. It's a rowing marathon.
00:44Wow.
00:45A rowing marathon. 21.6 miles, not quite a marathon,
00:48but anyway, the thing is, it's been running since 1988
00:51and something like 330 various types of boats
00:55were ploughing up the river,
00:57anything from Viking longboats, Hawaiian outriggers,
01:00all sorts, Chinese dragon boats.
01:03I mean, it sounds just hilarious.
01:06It's a handicap system, so it all sort of evens out.
01:08And I thought, well, if I go, I'll take Susie.
01:12You know, she's a brilliant rower. Yes.
01:14But I'm taking with me, or Susie and I are taking together,
01:17a Quincarine. Why not? A what?
01:20A Quincarine. It's a five-storey, so five banks of rowers.
01:25Very, very big rowers.
01:27From, I suppose, the Greek and Roman times.
01:29There was a great poem, I think it was the John Macefield poem,
01:32called Cargos, and just to give you a line,
01:34it's Quincarine of Nineveh from distant Ophir
01:39rowing home to Haven in sunny Palestine.
01:42Anyway, they were fantastic.
01:44And I don't know whether we could get a Quincarine up the Thames,
01:47but I'll have a go.
01:48And how many people do we need for this Quincarine?
01:50Hundreds. Hundreds.
01:51Right, well, we've got six here.
01:54Audience, that's at least seven.
01:56I didn't like the look of the audience.
01:58I didn't think there were too many good-looking rowers in there.
02:01We'll get... We'll have a whip round.
02:03We'll go round Salford Quays. Exactly.
02:05There's boats over there, near the geese.
02:07Geese are dangerous, we're getting lost.
02:09We could have a Quincarine race on the Salford Quays.
02:12Make it happen, Nick. Brilliant.
02:14Now, who have we got?
02:15We've got Dave Ashton back,
02:17who scored 95 on his first outing yesterday.
02:20Brilliant stuff. Thank you. Well done.
02:22Security officer from St Helens.
02:24Just great performance, actually.
02:26But you're now joined by Tricia Lee,
02:28now retired from West Mosey in Surrey,
02:30who is a chorister,
02:32because you sing tenor in a community choir,
02:35and you perform with your colleagues
02:38at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
02:40That must be a treat.
02:41It's absolutely terrific, because the acoustics are so good.
02:45And the first time I ever stood on the stage there,
02:47I kept thinking, I'm in the Yehudi Menuhin School.
02:50I'm not brilliant, I'm not one of their students,
02:53but I'm here.
02:54He was a great man, wasn't he?
02:56Oh, yes, absolutely.
02:57He was a wonderful man.
02:59It's a pleasure having you here.
03:01Good luck to you both, Tricia and Dave.
03:08And over in the corner, joined once again by Mark Pugatch.
03:12Welcome back, Mark.
03:13Welcome.
03:17All right, Dave, let's see how we get on today.
03:19Good luck to you. Off we go.
03:21Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:22Good afternoon, Dave.
03:23Can I have a consonant, please?
03:24Thank you. Start today with P.
03:28And another one.
03:31X.
03:32And a better one.
03:35C.
03:36And one more.
03:39N.
03:40And a vowel, please.
03:43E.
03:44And another one.
03:46A.
03:48And one more.
03:50O.
03:52A consonant.
03:54S.
03:56And another consonant, please.
03:58And lastly, N.
04:01And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:03Here's the Countdown Clock.
04:34Well, Dave, a six.
04:37Tricia?
04:38A five.
04:39And your five is?
04:40Capes.
04:41Thank you, Dave.
04:43Poncies.
04:44Would you refer to Susie?
04:46Yeah, in the dictionary.
04:48It's absolutely fine. Tough one to start with this.
04:51And Mark?
04:52Capon's another six.
04:54Yes, canons, one N in the middle.
04:57But we couldn't get beyond six either.
04:59Thanks very much.
05:00All right, six points to Dave.
05:02Tricia, your letters game.
05:04Hello, Rachel.
05:05Hi, Tricia.
05:06Can I start with a consonant, please?
05:07Thank you. Start with C.
05:09And another.
05:11T.
05:12And a vowel.
05:15I.
05:16And a vowel.
05:18E.
05:19And a consonant.
05:22D.
05:23Vowel.
05:25A.
05:26Vowel.
05:29O.
05:30Consonant.
05:32P.
05:33Consonant.
05:34And the last one.
05:36W.
05:38Countdown.
06:02MUSIC
06:10Tricia.
06:11Five.
06:12Dave.
06:13Six.
06:14And a six.
06:15Tricia.
06:16Wiped.
06:17Now Dave.
06:18Depict.
06:19Well done. Depict.
06:20Yeah. Yeah, very good.
06:22How did the corner do? Mark, Susie?
06:24We had wiped as well, but an interesting one that,
06:27I confess I have no idea what it means.
06:29No, you're forgiven. It's quite an obscure geological term.
06:32It's opacite, O-P-A-C-I-T-E,
06:35which collectively describes microscopic dark grains
06:39that you'll find in igneous rocks, really, really tiny ones,
06:42attributed to iron oxides.
06:44Thank you. Thanks, Susie.
06:49And now, Dave, it's your numbers game.
06:51Thank you. Could I have one from the top, please, Rachel,
06:54and five from anywhere else?
06:56Of course you can, thank you, Dave.
06:57One large, five little to kick us off today.
06:59And these little ones are nine, eight, three, nine and seven.
07:05And the big one, 25.
07:07And the target, 852.
07:10852.
07:26MUSIC PLAYS
07:42Well, Dave?
07:43I'm sorry, I'll have to declare nothing. I've messed up.
07:46How did Tricia do?
07:48Tricia also messed up. Sorry.
07:50No, let's see what Rachel's made of it.
07:52Rachel, 852?
07:54I have got 2-1 away, so leave it with me, Nick.
07:58Certainly. Let's have a tea-time teaser.
08:00It's Here's Roof, and the clue,
08:02Yes, I'd most definitely like to come with you to this part of the beach.
08:06Yes, I'd most definitely like to come with you to this part of the beach.
08:19APPLAUSE
08:25Welcome back, welcome back. I left with the clue,
08:28Yes, I'd most definitely like to come with you to this part of the beach.
08:32And the answer to that one is for sure.
08:35For sure.
08:37Now, if you'd like to become a Countdown contestant,
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08:45or write to us at contestantsapplications,
08:49Countdown leads LS31JS.
08:54Rachel, you're a genius. What have you done?
08:57I've found it, Nick.
08:59If you say 9 x 8 is 72,
09:02plus 25 is 97,
09:05times by the other 9 for 873,
09:09and then 7 x 3 is 21,
09:11and take it off for 852.
09:13Fabulous. There it is.
09:15APPLAUSE
09:17Fantastic. Well done, Rachel.
09:20So, Dave on 12, Trisha yet to score, but there's lots of time.
09:23It's early days. Trisha, your letters game.
09:26Start with a consonant, please.
09:28Thank you, Trisha. R
09:30And another?
09:32G
09:34And a third?
09:36T
09:38And a vowel?
09:40A
09:41A vowel?
09:42E
09:44A consonant?
09:46V
09:48A vowel?
09:50O
09:52A vowel?
09:54And lastly, A.
09:56And the clock starts now.
10:16CLOCK TICKS
10:30Trisha?
10:31Seven.
10:32A seven. Thank you, Dave.
10:34Seven.
10:35Trisha?
10:36Voltage.
10:37And?
10:38Voltage.
10:39And voltage from Dave. And in the corner, Mark and Susie. Mark?
10:42Voltage as well.
10:44There was an awful lot more in there, did there?
10:46No.
10:47That's it?
10:48Yes, that was our best for seven.
10:50Thank you. 19 plays seven, and it's Dave we turn to. Yes, Dave?
10:53Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
10:55Thank you, Dave.
10:57S
10:59And another?
11:01N
11:03And another?
11:05M
11:07And one more?
11:09S
11:11And a vowel, please?
11:13I
11:14And another?
11:16A
11:17And another?
11:20E
11:23And a consonant, please?
11:26R
11:28And a consonant?
11:30And the last one, G.
11:33Standby.
11:43MUSIC PLAYS
12:05Yes, Dave?
12:06Eight.
12:07An eight. And Trisha?
12:09Six.
12:10And that six of yours is?
12:12Snares.
12:13Snares. Dave, what are you up to?
12:15Smearing.
12:16Smearing?
12:17Excellent, yes.
12:19Well done.
12:23And the corner, Susie and Mark?
12:26Seven R's had eight.
12:28That's good.
12:29But one longer as well.
12:31Yeah, there is a nine there. Last minute nine.
12:33Remassing, which is to reassemble, essentially, of a group of people.
12:38They remass, they come back together.
12:40OK. Well done.
12:43Remassing, thank you. 27 plays seven, and it's Trisha.
12:47Trisha, your numbers game.
12:49May I have one large and five small, please?
12:51Of course you may. Thank you, Trisha.
12:53One large, five little again.
12:55And these five small ones are six, ten, two, four, nine,
13:01and the large one, 100.
13:04And the target, 614.
13:06614.
13:38Now, Trisha.
13:40614.
13:41Thank you. And Dave?
13:42614.
13:43I think so. Trisha?
13:45100 times six?
13:47600.
13:48Plus ten, plus four.
13:49Straightforward, this one.
13:50And Dave? Oh, well done, Dave.
13:52Exactly the same.
13:57So, 37 to 17 as we turn to Mark.
14:01You must have seen some funny old things going on in your world.
14:04Some unusual things you see.
14:07I suppose it slightly depends on what the sport is.
14:09If you go to cricket, you are there all day,
14:11so it's not that unusual to see somebody painting,
14:14somebody knitting, somebody reading,
14:17somebody not watching at all
14:19and going out the back to the bar all afternoon
14:21if it gets a little bit slow.
14:23More unusual to see it at football, but you increasingly see it,
14:25which is bizarre when you bear in mind
14:27how much people are paying to watch football in the Premier League.
14:30But the last couple of years, people doing their homework,
14:34people doing Sudoku during football,
14:37people FaceTiming friends, people reading a book,
14:40and you think, this is an expensive hobby.
14:43You could probably be doing this at home.
14:45I went to a game once and the assistant manager was holding an...
14:49It was a non-league team.
14:51He was holding an apple throughout the first half.
14:54I said to him, half-time, what's the apple?
14:56He said, it's my lucky apple.
14:58If I hold on to this, we're going to score.
15:01And they did score. He had a bite and had a look at me and said,
15:04there you go, that's what it is.
15:06The weirdest thing I think I ever saw was with my own dad,
15:09who wasn't a great football fan,
15:11but took me to a game when I was 14 in Brighton.
15:14Bright were playing Arsenal.
15:16At age 14, I wanted to discuss, as you would age 14 after 20 minutes,
15:19the tactical game that was going on and who was good.
15:21So I turned around. He was sitting where Susie.
15:23I turned around to my right. He was fast asleep.
15:25In the main stand during a First Division game,
15:27I could see his greatcoat rising and falling.
15:30I punched him awake. I went, what are you doing?
15:32We're in a football match.
15:34And he said, listen, I did national service,
15:37and the first thing you're taught when you're a soldier
15:39is that you get to sleep wherever and whenever you can,
15:43and there is nothing going on out there to keep me awake.
15:47But to finish with,
15:49we don't really have the autograph era now, do we, as much?
15:53Because it's the selfie era, which is hard work.
15:57You have to see famous people in airports to see how hard work it is.
16:00But I heard a great story in the autograph era
16:02where a friend of mine's dad had gone to a football match at Cambridge United,
16:05who were playing in FA Cup time.
16:07The great Sir Trevor Brookings is there,
16:09one of the gentlemen of English football, and he really is.
16:12And my friend's dad wanted his autograph,
16:15but the only thing he had to hand was a copy of a book,
16:18which was Plato's Republic.
16:20Oh, right.
16:22So somewhere in the Fens, if you open up Plato's Republic,
16:25on the back of my leaf it says,
16:27Sir Trevor Brookings' signature.
16:29But we never quite know what Trevor's view
16:31on Socrates' crucial role in said republic really is.
16:34That was lovely.
16:39Extraordinary.
16:4037 plays 17.
16:42Dave in the lead, and it's Dave we turn to.
16:45Thanks, Nick. Can I have a consonant, please?
16:47Thank you, Dave. T
16:51And another.
16:53S
16:54And another.
16:57R
16:58And one more, please.
17:01S
17:03And a vowel.
17:05U
17:07And a vowel.
17:09E
17:11Another vowel.
17:13E
17:16A consonant, please.
17:18L
17:20And another consonant.
17:22And the last one, Q.
17:24Stand by.
17:50Yes, Dave?
17:51Eight.
17:52An eight. And, Tricia?
17:54Six.
17:55And your six, Tricia?
17:57Quests.
17:58No, Dave?
18:00Requests.
18:01Yeah, requests, actually.
18:03Indeed. Tricia's smiling there.
18:06Oh, dear.
18:07And anything else, Mark and Susie?
18:10There's a seven in there as well, isn't there?
18:12Yes, lust.
18:14Lust.
18:15And anything else, Susie?
18:17There's a seven in there as well, isn't there?
18:19Yes, lusters are there as well for the seven.
18:23All right, 45 plays 17.
18:25And, Tricia?
18:26Tricia, your letters again.
18:28Consonant, please.
18:30Thank you, Tricia. T
18:31And another.
18:34G
18:35And a vowel.
18:37A
18:38And a vowel.
18:39O
18:40Consonant.
18:42Z
18:43Vowel.
18:45U
18:46Vowel.
18:48I
18:49Consonant.
18:51S
18:52Consonant.
18:53And, lastly, another S.
18:56Stand by.
19:15MUSIC
19:29Yes, Tricia?
19:30Five.
19:31A five. And, Dave?
19:33I'm off for a six.
19:34Right. Tricia?
19:36Goats.
19:37And?
19:38A Gooty.
19:39A-G-O-U-T-I.
19:41Oh, yes, that's a countdown word, all right, isn't it?
19:44It certainly is, yes.
19:45Large, long-legged, burrowing rodent.
19:48Dave, I don't know if you were wondering about the plural.
19:51It can be the same or it can also be with the S,
19:53so you can put the S on to get your sense of it.
19:56Yeah.
19:57And, Marcus, who's you?
19:59Animals everywhere, isn't it?
20:01Apart from our friends the goats.
20:03Stags in there as well, but that is, I must say, that's a new one on me.
20:06Yeah.
20:07Excellent.
20:08A Gooty is now 51 to 17.
20:11Dave, numbers?
20:13Can I have one from the top, please, Rachel, and five from anywhere else?
20:16You can indeed. Thank you, Dave.
20:17One large, five, a little again.
20:19And this time around.
20:21They are two, six, five, nine, three and 25.
20:29And this target, 480.
20:32480.
20:43MUSIC PLAYS
21:05Well, Dave?
21:07480.
21:08And, Tricia?
21:09Too far away.
21:10Too far?
21:11Yep.
21:12Right.
21:1325 minus 5...
21:15Is 20.
21:16...is 20.
21:173 times 9 is 27.
21:19Yep.
21:206 divided by 2 is 3.
21:226 divided by 2, yep, 3.
21:2427 minus 3 is 24.
21:27Yep.
21:28And 24 20s is 480.
21:30Perfect. Lovely. Well done.
21:31Well done.
21:35Very well done.
21:37Time for our second Tea Time teaser.
21:39It's Ted Guitar.
21:41And the clue,
21:42Ted lent me his guitar and I was full of appreciation.
21:45Ted lent me his guitar and I was full of appreciation.
21:58APPLAUSE
22:06Welcome back.
22:07The clue,
22:08Ted lent me his guitar and I was full of appreciation.
22:13I was full of gratitude.
22:14That's the word we're after, gratitude.
22:17So, 61-17, Dave in the lead.
22:20Tricia, it's your lesson's game.
22:23A consonant, please.
22:25Thank you, Tricia.
22:27Y.
22:28And another?
22:31L.
22:32And another?
22:34B.
22:35And another?
22:37D.
22:38Vowel?
22:40E.
22:42Vowel?
22:43I.
22:44Vowel?
22:46E.
22:48Consonant?
22:51T.
22:52Vowel?
22:53And the last one?
22:54A.
22:55And the clock starts now.
23:08CLOCK TICKS
23:29Tricia.
23:30Seven.
23:31A seven, Dave?
23:32Seven.
23:33Tricia.
23:34Beetled.
23:36And?
23:37Bleated.
23:38You can have beetles if you have three E's,
23:41cos it's not with the A.
23:42OK, you can't be E.
23:43That spelling, yeah.
23:44OK, thank you.
23:45So I'm sorry about that.
23:46Had luck.
23:47Now...
23:48A beadily for seven.
23:50He eyed her beadily.
23:52Beadily.
23:53Yeah.
23:54But there is an eight in there, which is...
23:56editable.
23:57Yes.
23:58Yes.
23:59Copy being editable.
24:00This copy is editable, I suppose.
24:02Yes, a document on the computer might be editable.
24:10And we turn now to Dave.
24:11Dave, it's your letter's game.
24:14Consonant, please, Rachel.
24:15Thank you, Dave.
24:16D.
24:17And another?
24:19R.
24:20And another?
24:23T.
24:24And one more, please.
24:26R.
24:28And a vowel?
24:30I.
24:31And a vowel?
24:32E.
24:34Another vowel?
24:36I.
24:38A consonant?
24:40N.
24:43And another consonant, please.
24:45And the last one, G.
24:47Countdown.
25:03CLOCK TICKS
25:18Dave?
25:19Seven.
25:20A seven. Trish?
25:21Seven.
25:22Dave?
25:23Dirtier.
25:24And Tricia?
25:25Grinder.
25:26Um, yes.
25:27Absolutely fine.
25:29Yeah, no problem with either of those.
25:33Mark?
25:34There is an eight.
25:36Retiring.
25:37Retiring.
25:38Yeah.
25:39Very good.
25:44It is 75 to 20 for Susie.
25:47It's your origins of words.
25:49Ah, I do love this.
25:51What have you got for us?
25:52I have a nice email from Stephen in Rygate
25:55who heard the expression,
25:57give up the ghost the other day
25:59and is wondering where it comes from.
26:01Perhaps from ghost writing.
26:03I'm guessing the word ghost is Germanic, Stephen says.
26:07So I'll go straight to giving up the ghost,
26:11meaning a person's spirit or soul.
26:13It's in that sense that the ghost is used.
26:15And it originally simply meant to die,
26:18to relinquish one's soul, one's source of life.
26:22And the expression has come down quite a lot,
26:24if you think about it.
26:25So now we talk about a washing machine that's given up the ghost
26:28as some people are using it.
26:30So you'll definitely find that in Oxford's databases.
26:33But it's as simple as that.
26:35It was to die originally.
26:37But ghost itself is related to the German geist.
26:40So Stephen was right in wondering whether it was Germanic.
26:44And geist you'll find in zeitgeist,
26:46meaning the spirit of the times.
26:48So again, the soul of the times, if you like.
26:50It's all very similar.
26:52And as I often like relaying,
26:53that the H in ghost was a complete historical hiccup
26:57thanks to Capstan's Flemish printers.
27:00He hired printers from Flanders whose ghost native word,
27:04geist, had an H in it.
27:06So they plonked an H literally in the Old English ghost.
27:10It never had an H before then.
27:12Similar with aghast.
27:14But another expression in English which speaks to the very essence of life,
27:17nothing to do with ghosts really, is quick.
27:20And that's a word that's had quite a strange journey over the years.
27:24The original meaning for Anglo-Saxons of quick was living or alive.
27:29And you'll find that in the Book of Common Prayer,
27:31talking of the quick and the dead, the living and the dead.
27:35But also if you think about the quick of your fingernails,
27:38which is the bit below where the fingernail grows,
27:41that is what used to be seen as being so full of nerves and energy
27:46that it was more alive than the other parts of your body,
27:48which was quite strange.
27:50If you cut someone to the quick, you were cutting them again
27:52down to the very, very essence of their being,
27:54hurting them in a very deep way.
27:57Quick silver, again, that's got the alive sense.
28:00It was a former name for mercury,
28:02and it was so called because it moves in such an unpredictable way
28:05that it was thought to be alive.
28:07And quick sand, nothing to do with the speed with which you sink.
28:10That's simply to do with the fact that it moves in such a way
28:13that it looks like it is alive.
28:15So quick was originally not about speed.
28:18It only took that sense on much, much later.
28:20Again, it was all about life, so giving up the ghost
28:23and cutting someone to the quick are not quite siblings,
28:26but they've got very, very similar meanings and origins.
28:29Wonderful. Very good.
28:31APPLAUSE
28:34Perfect, perfect.
28:3675 to 20 for Tricia.
28:39Your letters, Karen.
28:41Consonant, please.
28:42Thank you, Tricia.
28:44M
28:45Another.
28:47T
28:48Another.
28:51H
28:52Vowel.
28:53U
28:54Vowel.
28:56O
28:57Vowel.
28:59E
29:01Consonant.
29:02F
29:03Consonant.
29:05J
29:07Vowel.
29:08And the last one.
29:09I
29:11Stand by.
29:18WHISTLE BLOWS
29:44Tricia.
29:45Five.
29:46And Dave.
29:47Tricia.
29:48Mouth.
29:49No.
29:50Mouth.
29:51Same from Dave.
29:52How did the corner do? Mark, Susie?
29:55Yeah, there is a word from Afrikaans,
29:57a South African word for a young boy, Nick,
29:59and it's oki or ochi, but it's spelled O-U-T-J-I-E.
30:03Fair for six.
30:04OK.
30:0680, it's 29.
30:07Dave, final letters game.
30:09Off we go.
30:11Consonant, please, Rachel.
30:13Thank you, Dave.
30:14R
30:16And another.
30:18P
30:19And another.
30:21M
30:22And one more.
30:25R
30:26And a vowel.
30:28O
30:29Another vowel.
30:30A
30:32Another vowel.
30:34O
30:36A consonant.
30:38S
30:40And...
30:42a vowel.
30:43And the last one, I.
30:46Stand by.
31:13MUSIC
31:19Yes, Dave?
31:20Just a five.
31:21Tricia?
31:22Five.
31:23Dave?
31:24Rooms.
31:25And Tricia?
31:26Rooms.
31:27Those are fives.
31:28Any advance on five? Mark and Susie?
31:30Another five. Prism.
31:32Yeah.
31:33But there's quite a long one lurking in there.
31:35Yes.
31:36Legal agent noun, this one.
31:38A promisor, as opposed to a promisee.
31:40A promisor is simply somebody who makes a pledge.
31:43Yeah.
31:44Thank you. Well done for that.
31:4985-34.
31:50Into the final numbers game.
31:52Tricia?
31:53One large, please, and five small.
31:55Thank you, Tricia.
31:56One large, five little coming up.
31:58And for the final time this week,
32:00we have five, five, nine, four, three,
32:05and the big one, 25.
32:08And the target, 970.
32:10970.
32:41Tricia?
32:43Sorry, no.
32:44No. Dave, how did you get on?
32:46970.
32:48Right. And?
32:51Four times nine is 36.
32:5349-36.
32:54Plus three is 39.
32:5639.
32:57Times 25.
32:58975.
32:59Minus five.
33:00Perfect. 970. Well done again.
33:02Very good. Well done, Dave.
33:03APPLAUSE
33:04Well done.
33:05Well done. You scored 95 yesterday.
33:08You're on 95 now, and a bit more time.
33:11Why? Because we're in the final round.
33:13It's conundrum time.
33:15Tricia, Dave, fingers on buzzers.
33:18Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:25Dave?
33:26Meanwhile.
33:27Let's see whether you're right. Gosh.
33:29Here we go. Meanwhile.
33:31Oh, that's splendid.
33:34105.
33:37Oh, Tricia Lee.
33:38That's so good.
33:39You came on the wrong day.
33:41You really did.
33:42I'm quite happy, don't worry.
33:44Incredible player.
33:46Will you take this goodie bag back to West Malsy?
33:49Thank you very much indeed.
33:51And continue to enjoy your singing,
33:53and thank you very much for coming.
33:55I will, thank you.
33:56Travel safely.
33:57And I'd like to see Dave make octogen.
33:59Please, please, please.
34:00Yes, indeed.
34:02Well done, Dave. We'll see you on Monday.
34:04You have a restful weekend.
34:07He's good, isn't he? My word.
34:09Seriously impressive, yeah.
34:11You guys come back on Monday?
34:12Absolutely.
34:13Marcus is, of course.
34:14Thanks.
34:15Wow.
34:16We've got another one, haven't we?
34:18I think they're like buses, octochamps.
34:20We didn't have any for a while,
34:22and now we've had a couple in a row,
34:23and Dave's looking good to start with.
34:25Very good.
34:26We'll see you on Monday.
34:27See you then.
34:28Join us there and see how Dave gets on on Monday.
34:30Same time, same place.
34:31You'll be sure of it.
34:32A very good afternoon.
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