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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:05APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Yesterday we spoke about the great rock band Queen,
00:37but today it's all about blues,
00:39because down in London the Blues Fest starts, the Blues Fest.
00:44All about blues music. Fantastic.
00:46Four nights at the O2. Amazing.
00:50I remember back, oh, so long ago, mid to late 60s,
00:54I took the Greyhound bus,
00:56which was a favourite thing for young people to go around America.
00:59But eventually we got to...we got to New Orleans.
01:04I was with a girlfriend. We weren't married.
01:06We were thrown out of a hotel because we couldn't show the marriage certificate
01:09by a bearded woman. I always remember that.
01:11And the second thing that I remember more lovingly, actually,
01:15about New Orleans is in the French Quarter was Preservation Hall,
01:19which was very simple, as I remember, a wooden building.
01:22You went in and you sat on school benches,
01:25old school benches on wooden floors,
01:28and there at the piano there was a wizened little lady
01:32who ran the Preservation jazz band,
01:36and she was called Sweet Emma,
01:38and she must have been way into her 70s then.
01:40She was a tiny little bird-like creature
01:44playing this extraordinary blues and that wonderful, wonderful band.
01:48So that's a great memory of mine from the deep south.
01:52Now, you've travelled widely.
01:54Did you ever find yourself down in Louisiana?
01:57New Orleans is the only place in the deep south I've been, actually,
01:59and I loved it, but it's got great culture,
02:01and the French Quarter was gorgeous,
02:03and I went, obviously, after you, and it was after Katrina,
02:05and the French Quarter was relatively untouched,
02:08so it's still beautiful, it's still got all the history,
02:10and, yeah, it's a really interesting place.
02:12Great fun. Great culture, great history.
02:14Great music, great killer cocktails.
02:17Indeed. Now, Rachel, here's a killer.
02:20We've got a killer in by the name of Martin May.
02:23He's dealt with six people so far. How are you feeling?
02:26I'm feeling good, yeah. Feeling very good.
02:29All right. Well, good luck today.
02:31Good luck today. You're looking for win number seven.
02:34You're joined from Dublin, from Sandiford,
02:37Alan Tubbert, a retired flight planner,
02:40and you're a solar eclipse hunter,
02:42and you've travelled all over the world looking for these things.
02:45How wonderful.
02:47I wouldn't quite say I'm a hunter, but I have, yes.
02:49I've seen three solar eclipses in the UK in 1999,
02:54in Australia in 2012, and last year in the United States.
02:57Wonderful. And did you go specifically to see it?
03:00To some extent, yes.
03:02In 1999, very distinctly to see it,
03:05because I'd read about it when I was young,
03:07that there was going to be a first solar eclipse
03:09in whatever number of years in this part of the world,
03:12and I said to myself, then, I'm going to go to see that.
03:15Well, you're very welcome here. Good luck to you.
03:17Good luck to you both.
03:19Let's have a round of applause for our brave contestants,
03:22Martin and Alan.
03:27And over in the corner, Susie. Welcome, Susie.
03:30No surprise there, but there is a surprise,
03:32because Paul's there, and our favourite magician is back.
03:34Welcome back, Paul. Thank you.
03:40Always great fun. Always great fun.
03:43Amazing bloke. You wait.
03:45Martin, off you go. Let us go.
03:47Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:49Thank you. Start today with G.
03:51And another.
03:53R.
03:54And a third.
03:56B.
03:57And a vowel.
03:59U.
04:00And another vowel.
04:02E.
04:03And another vowel.
04:05A.
04:07And a consonant.
04:09C.
04:11And another consonant.
04:13R.
04:16And a final vowel, please.
04:19And a final I.
04:21And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:45CLOCK TICKS
04:54Martin?
04:55I'll stick with a six.
04:57A six. Alan?
04:59I'll try a six.
05:01It's doubtful, but I'll try a six.
05:03All right. Let's go to Martin first.
05:05Yes, sir.
05:06Er, racier.
05:07Now, Alan.
05:08A curry would spell to I-E.
05:11Currier would be there,
05:13but curry in the normal sense of the word.
05:15I'm sorry about that, Alan.
05:16Yeah, OK. Bad luck.
05:18What can we have, Alan, in the corner?
05:20Er, nothing more than sixes, actually.
05:22No.
05:23We've got, erm, er, burger, I think is there.
05:25Yeah.
05:26And cagier.
05:27Cagier.
05:28Yeah, yeah.
05:29And no bracer, in case you were wondering, Martin.
05:31Not there.
05:32Thank you very much.
05:34Now, Alan, your letters go.
05:36Hello, Rachel.
05:37Hi, Alan.
05:38Er, consonant, please, to start.
05:40Thank you. Start with D.
05:42And another, please.
05:44W.
05:46And I'll try another one, please.
05:48T.
05:50Erm, a vowel, please.
05:52O.
05:54Erm, another one, please.
05:56U.
05:58Erm, and another.
06:01E.
06:03Erm, consonant, please.
06:06P.
06:08Erm, a consonant.
06:10M.
06:12And another consonant.
06:14And the last one, S.
06:16Stand by.
06:40MUSIC
06:49Alan.
06:50Seven.
06:51A seven and...?
06:52Yeah, seven as well.
06:53Two seven, Alan?
06:54A spouted.
06:55Thank you. Spouted. Martin?
06:57And stumped.
06:58Yeah.
06:59Both absolutely fine.
07:01Jolly good.
07:02Now, then.
07:03What have we got in the corner?
07:05Er, just one of the seven, there, without sped.
07:09Anything else, Susie?
07:10No, seven's all the way.
07:11Thank you. Thanks, Paul.
07:1213 plays seven.
07:13Martin on 13.
07:15And it's numbers for Martin.
07:17Can I get one from the top, please, and any other five?
07:20Thank you, Martin. Just one large, five little.
07:22Coming up, the first one of the day
07:24is seven,
07:26ten,
07:27eight,
07:28two,
07:29another two, and the last one, 100.
07:31And your target, 377.
07:34Three seven seven.
07:36MUSIC
07:40MUSIC CONTINUES
08:06Martin?
08:07Yeah, 377.
08:08I've only got 378.
08:10378. Let's stick with Martin for the moment, then. Martin?
08:13Right, so 100 times two is 200.
08:15100 times two, 200.
08:17Minus eight is 192.
08:19Yep.
08:20Times two, 384.
08:22384.
08:23Minus seven.
08:24And then seven.
08:25Perfect.
08:26Well done.
08:30Well done there, Martin.
08:3123 plays Allen.
08:32Seven has returned to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:35which is a train con.
08:37And the clue,
08:38nobody uses public transport anymore,
08:40said the pink flower.
08:42Nobody uses public transport anymore,
08:44said the pink flower.
09:02Welcome back. I left with the clue,
09:04nobody uses public transport anymore,
09:06said the pink flower.
09:08And the answer to that one is carnation.
09:12Carnation.
09:1423-7, Martin in the lead at the moment.
09:18Allen?
09:19A consonant, please, Rachel.
09:21Thank you, Allen.
09:22T
09:23Another one.
09:25N
09:27And another.
09:30Y
09:32A vowel, please.
09:34I
09:36Another vowel.
09:38U
09:40And another, please.
09:42U
09:43A consonant.
09:46N
09:48A consonant.
09:50H
09:52And a consonant.
09:55And the last one, S.
09:57Stand by.
10:05CLOCK TICKS
10:29Allen.
10:30Six.
10:31Six, Martin?
10:32Yeah, six as well.
10:34Allen.
10:35Mutiny.
10:36Yes.
10:37Martin.
10:39Can we match that?
10:41Yeah, we can match it, cos that's what we got as well,
10:43but it's all we've got, unfortunately.
10:45Yeah, very slim pickings there.
10:47Pretty tough, all those U's. Thank you very much.
10:4929-13, Martin.
10:52Your letters game.
10:53I'll start with a vowel, please, Rachel.
10:55Thank you, Martin.
10:56O
10:57And another.
10:58I
10:59And a consonant.
11:02R
11:03And another.
11:05J
11:06And a third.
11:08T
11:09And a vowel.
11:11E
11:12And a consonant.
11:15W
11:16And another consonant.
11:19N
11:21And a final consonant, please.
11:23And a final R.
11:25Stand by.
11:26CLOCK TICKS
11:34CLOCK TICKS
11:57Martin.
11:58Er, I'll risk a seven.
12:00Allen.
12:01Seven.
12:03Martin.
12:04Townier.
12:05No.
12:06Allen.
12:07Jointer.
12:08Yes.
12:09Jointer, the carpenter's tool, very, very good.
12:11That's there for seven.
12:12No townier, I'm afraid, Martin, not there.
12:14Sorry.
12:15Oh, bad luck.
12:16Bad luck.
12:17Now, in the corner?
12:19No, nothing else, really.
12:20Jointy was it, I think.
12:21Jointy.
12:22You could have rejoined if you wanted to.
12:24But, yeah, seven's for us.
12:27So, 29-20.
12:29Closed-run things so far.
12:30So, Allen, try this numbers game.
12:32OK.
12:33I'll have one from the top, Rachel, and any other five.
12:38Thank you, Allen.
12:39Same again, one large, five little.
12:41And these five little ones are nine, ten, eight, two and four,
12:46and a larger one, 25.
12:48And your target, 523.
12:50523.
12:52CLOCK TICKS
13:01CLOCK TICKS
13:23Allen.
13:24I've got 523, but I haven't got it completely written down.
13:27All right, don't worry. And Martin?
13:29523.
13:30Yes, go ahead, Allen.
13:32Nine plus eight plus four is 21.
13:35Yep.
13:36Times 25.
13:38525.
13:39Minus two.
13:40And minus a two. Perfect.
13:42And Martin, same way?
13:43Exactly the same.
13:44Well done.
13:45All right.
13:46APPLAUSE
13:50So, 39.
13:5239 plays 30 closed-run things.
13:54We look excitedly towards Paul Zen.
13:58Paul, what have you got for us today?
14:00Well, I'm going to talk to you about Halloween,
14:02because it's coming up, obviously.
14:04It's a bit like Christmas, the build-up gets earlier every year.
14:07So I'm going to show you a little puzzle which is Halloween-related.
14:10I've got this thing in my pocket here,
14:12but I'm still pleased to see you, Susie.
14:15This is a stake, as you'd use for killing off vampires,
14:19a vampire hunter's stake, I suppose you'd call it.
14:23Raising the stakes.
14:24Various other puns.
14:26What I've got here as well are 13 nails.
14:30And these are actually the original nails from Dracula's coffin.
14:34The lady in the souvenir shop told me.
14:37And the puzzle is, you're going to put one in there, like that,
14:40and then you have to take the other dozen
14:42and you have to balance them all on top of that nail.
14:45Now, you're not allowed to use anything outside of just the nails,
14:49no sticky tape or glue or magnets or threads or anything like that.
14:53No one can touch the stake or the tabletop or anything else.
14:56So they've just got to balance on top of there somehow.
14:59So any ideas?
15:02In a word?
15:05No. So they can't touch this?
15:08No. All you can touch is the top of that, the head of that nail there.
15:11OK, no. Unless you... No.
15:14Worth a go.
15:16This is the way it's quite an elegant solution, really.
15:18You take one of the nails like that,
15:20and then you take the others in pairs
15:23and you just alternate them like this all the way down
15:26till you've used up... Whoops, I said.
15:28Trying to escape again, Dracula.
15:30And then you...
15:32Once you've got one left at the end of this,
15:35you're going to put that on the top, the same as the other one,
15:38but the other way round.
15:40So you see the head's at the end, that end there.
15:42This one's going to go that way round.
15:44And then this is the only fiddly bit
15:46where you pick up those very gently
15:48and they slide down
15:50and the head's stopped them falling all the way through
15:52and then you just find the midpoint
15:54and you balance them on there like that.
15:56Amazing.
15:57Nails! Wow!
15:59Very good.
16:03But is it art?
16:05I think it is. That's very smart indeed.
16:08Thanks, Paul. Brilliant.
16:1039 to 30, Aaron on 30.
16:12And it's Martin we turn to now. Martin.
16:15OK. Can I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
16:17OK, Martin. T.
16:19And another.
16:21V.
16:22And a third.
16:24T.
16:25And a fourth.
16:27S.
16:29And a vowel.
16:31A.
16:32And another vowel.
16:34E.
16:35And another vowel.
16:37O.
16:39And a consonant.
16:41H.
16:43And a final consonant, please.
16:46And a final L.
16:48Stand by.
17:17Martin.
17:19Seven.
17:21Alan.
17:23I've got a seven, but it's an American word
17:25that I'm not sure will be in the dictionary.
17:27Will I go for it?
17:28In a minute. Yes, Martin.
17:30Stove eight.
17:31Now, Alan.
17:32Hottles.
17:34I know they use it in America as little...
17:36You can get T in a hottle.
17:38How are you spelling it?
17:40H-O-T-T-L-E-S.
17:42OK. I'll start with that one, then.
17:44That's not there, I'm afraid.
17:47Sorry, Alan.
17:49And don't think stovate...
17:52Stovate. I may be making up a word.
17:54I think you possibly might be.
17:56No, stovate there, but not stovate.
17:58Sorry, Martin.
17:59Sorry.
18:00No to both.
18:01Bad luck all round.
18:02Now, what can we have?
18:03Paul and Susie, what have you cooked up?
18:05Well, yeah, considering those answers,
18:08an appropriate seven with loaves.
18:10Loaves to say.
18:12Anything else, Susie?
18:14There's solvate as well, which is obviously a chemical term.
18:18All about chemical combinations.
18:20But, yeah, we stuck with seven.
18:21Thank you very much.
18:22So it stands at 39-30.
18:24Alan, your letters again.
18:25I'll start with a consonant, please.
18:27Thank you, Alan.
18:28N.
18:30And another.
18:32L.
18:33And another.
18:35M.
18:37A vowel, please.
18:39A.
18:40Another.
18:41O.
18:43Another.
18:45I.
18:47A consonant, please.
18:49R.
18:51A vowel.
18:53E.
18:55And a consonant.
18:56And the last one.
18:58S.
18:59Stand by.
19:12MUSIC
19:31Alan?
19:32I've got seven.
19:33A seven and?
19:34A nine.
19:35And a nine.
19:37What's this seven of yours?
19:39M.
19:40Thank you, Martin.
19:42I hope so, they're normalised.
19:43Yes, well done.
19:44Oh, well done.
19:45Well done.
19:46APPLAUSE
19:49Is there any else?
19:51Almonas are there, if you wanted an A.
19:53And actually, it's only a six, but merlin is there as well,
19:57I just mentioned.
19:58Well done.
19:59Has he got a capital M?
20:01No, because it's there as a falcon type of word.
20:03OK.
20:04She's always got an answer, hasn't she?
20:06Always.
20:07Although the way I meant it, did.
20:11All right, 57 to 30.
20:13Now, Martin, your numbers game.
20:16Can I get two large and four small, please, Rachel?
20:18Back to your favourite.
20:19Two large, four little.
20:21Thank you, Martin.
20:22This round is five, ten, nine, two, 25 and 50.
20:29And this target, 665.
20:32665.
20:34MUSIC
20:40MUSIC
21:04Martin.
21:05Yes, 665.
21:06Thank you, Alan.
21:07665.
21:08Martin.
21:09Nine plus five is 14.
21:11Yep.
21:12Times 50 is 700.
21:13It is.
21:14And take up the 25 and the ten.
21:15Perfect. One way to get there.
21:17Alan.
21:18I did nine times 25 plus 50.
21:21Nine times 25 plus 50 is 675.
21:25And take away the ten.
21:26Yeah, lots of ways for this one.
21:28Well done.
21:29APPLAUSE
21:32Well done.
21:33So, 67 to 40 as we turn to our second tea time teaser,
21:37which is hold snarl.
21:39And the clue, it's not how he makes his cigarette,
21:42it's what he's having for lunch.
21:44It's not how he makes his cigarette,
21:46it's what he's having for lunch.
21:48MUSIC
21:56APPLAUSE
22:04Welcome back.
22:05I left with the clue, it's not how he makes his cigarette,
22:08it's what he's having for lunch.
22:11The answer to that is hand rolls.
22:13Susie, I understand the cigarette business, but for lunch?
22:17Type of sushi.
22:18A cone of dried seaweed filled with rice, fish, vegetables, etc.
22:21And that's known as a hand roll.
22:23That's a hand roll.
22:24Good.
22:25Thank you very much.
22:2667 to 40.
22:28Alan, your letters game.
22:30Consonant, please.
22:31Thank you, Alan.
22:32T.
22:33And another.
22:35G.
22:37Another, please.
22:39R.
22:41A vowel.
22:43O.
22:44Another.
22:46A.
22:48Another vowel.
22:50E.
22:52Consonant.
22:54S.
22:56Consonant.
22:58F.
23:00Consonant.
23:01And the last one.
23:02T.
23:04Stand by.
23:05MUSIC
23:31Alan.
23:33Seven.
23:34A seven.
23:35And Martin.
23:36Yeah, I'll go with seven as well.
23:38Alan.
23:39Forgets.
23:40And storage.
23:42With no S on it this time.
23:43No S.
23:44That's absolutely fine.
23:45Can we improve on seven?
23:47Paul and Susie.
23:48We've got another seven with toaster, I think, is there.
23:51Yeah.
23:52There's an eight with garrotes.
23:55Mm.
23:56But there's also an eight with a sandwich.
23:59Mm.
24:00But there's also a nine there with frottages.
24:04Susie.
24:05Yes, a frottage in this sense is a work of art
24:08produced by taking a rubbing from an uneven surface.
24:11Oh, brass rubbings.
24:12The nine.
24:13Brass rubbings.
24:14Please, Susie.
24:1774 to 47.
24:19Martin on 74.
24:20Martin, your letters game.
24:22Hi, Rachel. Can I have a vowel, please?
24:24Thank you, Martin.
24:25O.
24:26And another.
24:27I.
24:28And a third.
24:30U.
24:31And a consonant.
24:33X.
24:34And a better one, please.
24:37M.
24:38And another.
24:40L.
24:42And a vowel.
24:44E.
24:46And a consonant.
24:48D.
24:50And a final consonant, please.
24:53And a final L.
24:56Stand by.
24:58MUSIC
25:27Martin.
25:29Erm, I'll risk a seven.
25:31Alan?
25:32Six.
25:33A six. Your six?
25:34Milled.
25:35Milled, thank you. And?
25:37Might be making this up as well. Mollied.
25:39Mollied.
25:40Mollied the fish will be there.
25:42Erm, yeah, that's there.
25:44But there's no molly as a verb, I'm afraid, Martin.
25:47I can see.
25:48Erm, there might be molly crush and that kind of thing.
25:51Yeah, it's for so as a noun, I'm sorry.
25:53Good luck.
25:54Now, Paul?
25:55Susie?
25:56Yeah, nothing better than a six, actually, there.
25:58Just another one with module.
26:01Thank you very much.
26:0274 to 53.
26:05There's time.
26:06Not much, but there's time, Alan.
26:08Let's turn to Susie and see what she's got for us today.
26:11Susie?
26:12Your origins of words.
26:14Thank you, Nick.
26:15We had a nice email from Geoff and Judith Locke from Derby.
26:19And they're interested in the word spiff.
26:22And it's defined in the novel School for Scoundrels
26:26in a really useful way, spiff.
26:29It's a petty crook who will turn his hand to anything
26:33so long as it does not involve honest work.
26:36So spiffs, typically quite flashily dressed,
26:40lurid ties, not looking at Paul here at all,
26:43who make a living by various disreputable dealings,
26:48existing by their wits rather than holding down any job,
26:52and supporting themselves with kind of all sorts of
26:55black market goings-on.
26:58And very much associated with the Second World War.
27:01So if you wanted to get a pack of cigarettes
27:03or if you wanted to get some nylons if you were a woman,
27:06you would turn to the spiff.
27:09And until recently, we had absolutely no idea where it came from.
27:13We had a good guess in terms of the linguistic side of things.
27:16But not quite how it was moved into currency.
27:19But some of you may remember there was a great BBC TV programme
27:24called Balderdash and Piffle.
27:26And in that, where they were trying to trace the earliest records
27:30of particular words on behalf of the Oxford English Dictionary,
27:33they found a book from 1929, The Crooks of the Underworld.
27:37And it made a reference to a clique of Manchester spiffs.
27:41But also went on to describe the activities
27:44of a really unsuccessful but sort of petty crook called Henry Baxter.
27:48This is relevant because his nickname was Spiff.
27:51And that was recorded widely in the newspapers
27:53whenever he went to court.
27:55Probably means that the word was around before then
27:58and we think it goes back to spiffy,
28:00the idea of being flashily dressed,
28:02it was all about the clothes and those lurid ties.
28:04But the fact that Henry Baxter was always in court,
28:07was always in the papers, you imagine the tabloids,
28:09so to speak, of the time,
28:11it probably moved spiff out into the mainstream,
28:14where it has stayed ever since.
28:16Wonderful.
28:2274-53, Martin in the lead, and it's Alan we turn to. Yes, sir.
28:27Consonant, please, Rachel.
28:29Thank you, Alan. S
28:31Another.
28:33K
28:35And another.
28:37F
28:39Vowel, please.
28:41A
28:43Another.
28:45O
28:47And another vowel.
28:49I
28:51Consonant.
28:53G
28:55Another.
28:57N
28:59And a consonant.
29:01And lastly, P.
29:03Stand by.
29:09CLOCK TICKS
29:34Alan.
29:36Seven.
29:38Alan.
29:40Soaping.
29:42Now then, Martin. Soaking.
29:44Yes, absolutely fine, both.
29:46Any other variations?
29:48No, just a couple of sixes, asking and faking,
29:52but, yeah, nothing better than seven.
29:54That's it. Susie? Nope.
29:56We're done? All right.
29:5881-60, Martin, final letters game for you.
30:00Can I start with a vowel, please, Rachel?
30:02Thank you, Martin. E
30:04And another.
30:06P
30:08And a vowel.
30:10O
30:12And a consonant, please.
30:14C
30:16And another.
30:18L
30:20And another.
30:22N
30:24And another.
30:26R
30:28And a final vowel, please.
30:30And a final U.
30:32And the clock starts now.
30:34CLOCK TICKS
31:04Martin.
31:06Er, seven.
31:08Alan. Seven.
31:10Thank you, Martin.
31:12Er, pouncer.
31:14And coupler.
31:16And a coupler.
31:18Yes, both those, absolutely fine, both in the dictionary.
31:20Thank you. And anything else?
31:22Oh, just a little nine.
31:24Oh, come on!
31:26With pronuclei.
31:28That's brilliant. And what is it, Susie?
31:30Er, reproduction.
31:32Sperm and egg, pronuclei.
31:34So, pronucleus is either a pair of
31:36gametic... It's all about
31:38cell division, cell proliferation, reproduction.
31:40Thank you very much.
31:42Anything else?
31:46Pronuclei, indeed.
31:4888-67.
31:50Into the final numbers game. Alan.
31:52One from the top and five others, please.
31:54Thank you, Alan. One large, five little.
31:56Coming up are the final numbers of the day.
31:584, 7,
32:009, 1,
32:022 and 100.
32:04And the last target,
32:06525.
32:08525.
32:28MUSIC PLAYS
32:38Alan?
32:40Er, I'm afraid I've lost.
32:42I'm trying to get... I haven't got...
32:44Oh, bad luck. Martin?
32:46Yeah, 525.
32:48Off we go. 2 plus 1 is 3.
32:50Yep. Times 7.
32:5221. Times 100.
32:54Times 100, 2,100.
32:56Over 4. Perfect.
32:58525. Well done, indeed.
33:00APPLAUSE
33:02Well done, Martin.
33:04Just nudging 100 there.
33:0698-67 as we go into
33:08the final round. Gentlemen,
33:10fingers on buzzers.
33:12Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
33:20Martin?
33:22Venturing. Venturing.
33:24I don't know whether you're right.
33:26I have little doubt. Here it comes. Venturing.
33:28Well done. Well done.
33:30APPLAUSE
33:32Oh, well done, Martin.
33:34Another great score. 108.
33:36And seven wins.
33:38I'll come back to you.
33:40Alan, you played very well.
33:4267. I think you're the highest
33:44scoring contender against Martin
33:46from memory. So well done on that.
33:48And you take this
33:50goodie bag back to
33:52Underford in County Dublin
33:54with our very best wishes.
33:56Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. I enjoyed it.
33:58Now, young man,
34:00tomorrow's a big day.
34:02No tearing up the time tonight, all right?
34:04I'll try my best. We'll see you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.
34:06Big day tomorrow.
34:08Paul, see you tomorrow. See you then.
34:10And Susie too, of course. Likewise.
34:12I wouldn't put any money on
34:14Martin not doing that.
34:16No, very formidable. Could be our
34:18number one seed, depending on how tomorrow goes.
34:20He's excellent. We'll see you tomorrow.
34:22See you then. See you tomorrow. Join us then.
34:24See Martin become an OctoChamp or not?
34:26Maybe. You never know.
34:28Join us then. Same time, same place. You'll be sure of it.
34:30A very good afternoon.
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