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00:30Well, good afternoon, good afternoon, and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:37Now, we all know that old saw, that old phrase, tidy house, tidy mind, but is it really worth it?
00:43Tidy house, tidy mind.
00:45You know, there's a crowd about now that are obsessed with cleanliness,
00:49and if their homes don't look like some sort of catalogue picture, they're unhappy.
00:56And I know a few of these people. I've got one in my family, actually.
01:00And I find those sort of homes pretty soulless. They don't look homely at all. I don't know about you.
01:05And actually, as a home, as a house, our house is not tidy.
01:11Catherine will often say to me, oh, the cat's been sick in the hall.
01:17I'll leave it for a while to firm up, so be careful where you are.
01:20She will also say, no, she'll be telling everyone.
01:24And she'll say, oh, there's the cat's brought a mouse in. It's in the kitchen. Just be careful you don't squash it.
01:31It is, but it's a homely home.
01:35You like the twits? Wasn't that the Roald Dahl when they kind of, they were really disgusting?
01:39Well, don't, you know, if you come round to our place, bring a sick bag.
01:43No!
01:44Who's here?
01:45Toby MacDonald is back, heading for Octa-Champton.
01:50How are you doing, Toby?
01:51I'm doing all right.
01:52You're doing very well. What do you mean, all right? You've won seven. You've been fantastic.
01:57And today is the day. So keep your nerve, all right? Good luck to you.
02:02And you're joined by Leigh Padovani.
02:05Yes, hello.
02:07Are you Italian? Are you a dad Italian?
02:08My dad's half Italian.
02:10Half Italian?
02:10Yes.
02:11Imagine what his name would be if it was fully Italian.
02:13A receptionist from East Bolden near Sunderland.
02:16That's right.
02:17And you hate heights.
02:18Yes.
02:19Yeah, really terrified heights.
02:21I'm a big fan.
02:21And then, naturally, you went and abseiled down something. Where was that?
02:26I did. It was for charity at work at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.
02:30Oh, good for you.
02:31But, unfortunately, I took so long to get over the edge that all but one of the spectators
02:34had gone.
02:36Oh, was it an overnight job?
02:37My partner had to come up on the roof to help me over.
02:42Push you over?
02:43Well, listen, you've abseiled to charity. I never have. So, you know, who am I to lark
02:48about? Well, good luck to you both. Good luck to Leigh. Good luck to Toby. Let's have
02:52a big round of applause.
02:58Now, Susie's here. Welcome, Susie. And until he comes to call again, a doctor calls.
03:06Our resident doctor, Dr. Phil Hammond. Welcome.
03:09Thank you. Thank you.
03:13Out of interest, how long does it take cat sick to firm up before you can put it on the
03:18cake slice? A day? Two days?
03:20No, no, no, no. We live in a very cold house.
03:24Ah.
03:24Okay, and that helps enormously. All right. Now, Toby, start off today's countdown for us,
03:31will you?
03:32Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:32Good afternoon, Toby.
03:33Can I start with a consonant, please?
03:35Thank you. Start with L.
03:37And another.
03:39G.
03:40And another.
03:42J.
03:43And a vowel.
03:45E.
03:46And another.
03:47O.
03:48And another.
03:50I.
03:51A consonant.
03:52S.
03:54A vowel.
03:56U.
03:58And a final vowel, please.
04:00And a final A.
04:02And here's the countdown clock.
04:05I.
04:07Iucht.
04:07Iiji, I don't know.
04:08Here we go.
04:08I'm.
04:23I.
04:23I.
04:25I.
04:25I.
04:26I.
04:32Well, Toby.
04:37Seven.
04:38Seven. Lee?
04:39Seven.
04:40Toby?
04:41Goalies.
04:43Lee?
04:45Jealous.
04:46Jealous.
04:47Mm-hmm. Very good.
04:49What do you think, Dr Phil?
04:51It's very good, but I would invite you to peep between my half-open jealousy.
04:55My half-open jealousy.
04:58What do you reckon that is?
04:58I've no idea.
05:00Well, there's a link with jealousy, actually, because it is French for jealousy.
05:03It comes from French, but in English it means a blind or shutter, so slattered.
05:08And the link is that in the Middle East it was associated with the screening of women from view,
05:14so they were jealously guarded.
05:15Jealousy. Yeah, well, well.
05:17Seven the piece, and Lee, your letters came.
05:21Hi, Rachel.
05:22Hi, Lee.
05:23Consonant, please.
05:24Start with N.
05:26And a vowel?
05:28E.
05:29And a consonant?
05:32R.
05:33And a vowel?
05:34U.
05:35And a consonant?
05:38S.
05:39And a vowel?
05:41O.
05:42And a consonant?
05:44R.
05:45And a vowel?
05:47E.
05:48And a final consonant, please.
05:50And a final S.
05:53Stand by.
05:54What?
05:54We'll see you next time.
06:14Lee.
06:26Just a five.
06:27A five, Toby.
06:29I'll try a six.
06:31Lee.
06:32Nurse.
06:34Thank you, Toby.
06:35An eros.
06:37Eros.
06:38An E-R-R-O-U-S.
06:40Yeah.
06:40Er, he's not there, I'm afraid.
06:45Sorry.
06:46Out loud.
06:47Now, Dr. Phil and Susie.
06:49Do you have any neuroses, Nick?
06:51More than you could wave a sticker.
06:54Well, I wasn't really asking that.
06:55It's there for eight.
06:55Neuroses is actually there.
06:57Well done.
06:57That's an extraordinary word.
06:58And it's there.
06:59It is.
07:00Neuroses.
07:00Neuroses.
07:01Yeah.
07:03Twelve to Lee.
07:05Toby on seven.
07:06Toby, numbers game.
07:08One from the top and five small, please.
07:10Thank you, Toby.
07:11Your favourite.
07:12One large, five little.
07:14And for the first time today, they are three, four, two, seven, nine, and one hundred.
07:23And the target, four hundred and ninety-eight.
07:25Four, nine, eight.
07:26Four, nine, two, seven, eight.
07:30MUSIC CONTINUES
08:00MUSIC CONTINUES
08:30We're going to our first tea-time teaser, which is Satan Fist.
08:34And the clue, he dreams constantly about having an abnormal sack full of orange aid.
08:41He dreams constantly about having an abnormal sack full of orange aid.
08:47MUSIC CONTINUES
08:48Well, welcome back.
09:04I left you with the clue.
09:05He dreams constantly about having an abnormal sack full of orange aid.
09:10Why would that be?
09:12Clearly, because he's a fantasist.
09:15Fantasist is the answer to that.
09:17So, as I say, 22 plays 17, Toby on 17, and it's Lee's Letters game.
09:23Well done.
09:24Rachel, a consonant, please.
09:26Thank you, Lee.
09:27W.
09:28And a vowel.
09:29Vowel.
09:30I.
09:31And a consonant.
09:33P.
09:34And another consonant.
09:37N.
09:38And a vowel.
09:39A.
09:41And a consonant.
09:43P.
09:45And a vowel.
09:47U.
09:49And a consonant.
09:51T.
09:51And a final vowel, please.
09:56And a final O.
09:58Stand by.
09:59BELL RINGS
10:01Yes, Lee?
10:31Seven.
10:32A seven, Toby?
10:33Seven.
10:34Lee?
10:35A point.
10:36And?
10:37Same word.
10:39There we go.
10:41Any more sevens, Dr. Phil, Susie?
10:43No, but Susie's got a very impressive eight.
10:46Oh.
10:46Yes.
10:47Um, pupation is there.
10:49When an insect, or a larva, I should say, pupates, it becomes a pupa, and the process is called pupation.
10:57Really?
10:57Ends up as a pupa.
11:00Lovely.
11:01Twenty, uh, nine plays twenty-four.
11:04Still five points in Lee's favour.
11:05Toby.
11:07Let us go.
11:08Consonant, please.
11:09Thank you, Toby.
11:11H.
11:12And another.
11:14D.
11:15And another.
11:17Z.
11:19A vowel.
11:21A.
11:22And another.
11:24I.
11:25And another.
11:27U.
11:28A consonant.
11:30N.
11:31A vowel.
11:34E.
11:35And a consonant, please.
11:37And lastly, L.
11:39Stand by.
11:40A vowel.
11:44A vowel.
11:47A vowel.
12:00A vowel.
12:01But a vowel.
12:02Toby.
12:13I'll try a seven.
12:15Lee?
12:16Six.
12:17And your six?
12:18Handle.
12:19Handle.
12:20Now then, Toby.
12:21Dualise.
12:25You are, yes, spot on.
12:28To dualise is to simply make something into two.
12:32Lots and lots of different applications, grammar, aircraft, etc.
12:37But it's all about, yeah, splitting it.
12:39Well, making into two, multiplying into two.
12:41Very good.
12:41Well done.
12:42Well done.
12:44Now, Dr. Phil?
12:45Yeah, we could match that with inhaled.
12:47Inhaled is there.
12:48Yeah.
12:49The seven, yeah.
12:50The seven.
12:51Susie?
12:51That's our best, yeah.
12:52It'll do.
12:5329 plays.
12:54Toby's 31 now.
12:56And it's Lee we turn to.
12:58Numbers game.
12:59Could I have one large and five small, please?
13:01You can indeed.
13:02Thank you, Lee.
13:03Same.
13:03Again, one large, five little.
13:05This time, they are nine, four, nine, two, ten, and 75.
13:14And the target, 849.
13:16Eight, four, nine.
13:17One large, twelve, ten, and ten.
13:34Yes, Lee?
13:50849.
13:51And Toby?
13:53849.
13:54Lee?
13:5575 plus 9, 84, times 10, 840, and add the other 9.
14:02Well done, 849.
14:03And Toby?
14:04Same way.
14:07There you go.
14:10So 41 to 39, Toby hanging on to that slender lead as we turn to Dr. Phil.
14:18Now, Dr. Phil.
14:19Yeah, well, I've been talking and indeed celebrating the NHS this week.
14:23I'm now going to think a bit about the future.
14:24What does the next 50-odd years hold?
14:26I think there's no doubt that technology will play a much bigger role.
14:30So I went to a lecture recently where they're thinking about using Fitbits to actually put implants in you and to measure things like how your kidney function is, what your heart function is, actually measuring electrolytes and things in your blood.
14:42And then somebody's working on one will actually measure genetic mutations.
14:46So we're born with certain risks of certain cancers, but most cancers occur when mutations occur in the body as we go along.
14:53It will tell you at the end of the day, today you had 23 potentially cancerous mutations, and your body managed to sort out 16 of them sleep well.
15:01And that's the issue.
15:05Some people quite like data.
15:06They like doing their 10,000 steps.
15:08They like being monitored, like all this.
15:09And some people, it freaks them out a little bit.
15:12I think at the end of the day, we can't get away from the fact that I think we'll never have a really meaningful conversation with a robot.
15:18And there was a trial that happened recently that showed that actually some of these fundamentals will always need human input.
15:23They actually did a trial in 69 nursing homes across England of residents with a dementia diagnosis, and the trial found that those who received regular conversations and activities tailored to their interests and preferences had better quality of life scores, improvements in dementia symptoms, decrease in agitation, and needed fewer drugs.
15:42And that's the issue, is that we don't...
15:44There are some dementia care homes that are amazing, and they do reminiscences, and they build streets based on how streets used to be in the 40s and 50s, and they're quite extraordinary.
15:52And there are some that are absolutely short-saft and have no money.
15:56And that's still, I think, the issue in health care.
15:57There's huge variation wherever you go.
15:59You can get some fantastic care, and you can get some care that's a bit not so good.
16:03And that happens in social care as well.
16:05But if you look at the end of the day, the tragedies that happened recently in this country with terrorist attacks, look how the NHS came together.
16:12Look how good it can be in emergency care.
16:14Look how many people walked out of hospitals in Manchester having had very serious injuries because we've got so good at trauma care.
16:21And I think at the end of the day, if society's going to spend its money on anything, why not put more money into health and social care?
16:27So if we want to realise the potential of the future and all these amazing developments, yes, we need proper scientific trials, but B, we need to pay more tax to fund it.
16:35So if you want your health service, you want it there in the future, we're going to have to pay a bit more, and we're going to have to do what we can for ourselves to keep healthy so we don't need to use it.
16:45Well done.
16:48Well said.
16:50Well said.
16:50Well said, Dr Phil.
16:5241 plays 39.
16:54Leon 39.
16:55Toby.
16:56Off we go.
16:57Consonant, please.
16:58Thank you, Toby.
17:00T.
17:01And another.
17:03R.
17:04And another.
17:06L.
17:07A vowel.
17:09U.
17:09And another.
17:11A.
17:12And another.
17:14O.
17:15A consonant.
17:17T.
17:18A vowel.
17:21I.
17:22And a consonant, please.
17:24And lastly, D.
17:27Go.
17:27Go.
17:27Go.
17:27Go.
17:29Go.
17:30Go.
17:53Go.
17:54Go.
17:54Yes, Toby?
18:00Six.
18:01A six, Lee?
18:02Just a five.
18:03And that five?
18:04Trail.
18:05Trail, Toby?
18:07Taylor.
18:08And Taylor?
18:09Mm-hm.
18:11And?
18:12There is a droid for six, but there is an eight there as well.
18:16Tutorial.
18:18Oh, tutorial.
18:19Well spotted.
18:19That's very good.
18:20Well done, too.
18:20Thanks, Lucy.
18:21So, 47 plays 39.
18:23Lee, you're back on.
18:24Your letters game.
18:26A consonant, please.
18:27Thank you, Lee.
18:28R.
18:30And a vowel?
18:31A.
18:33And a consonant?
18:34F.
18:36And a vowel?
18:38O.
18:39And a consonant?
18:41M.
18:42And a consonant?
18:44X.
18:45And a vowel?
18:47E.
18:49A consonant?
18:51R.
18:52And a vowel?
18:58And a final U.
18:59And the clock starts right now.
19:01And a vowel?
19:03And a vowel?
19:03And a vowel?
19:04And a vowel?
19:04And a vowel?
19:05And a vowel?
19:05And a vowel?
19:06And a vowel?
19:06And a vowel?
19:07And a vowel?
19:07And a vowel?
19:07And a vowel?
19:08And a vowel?
19:08And a vowel?
19:09And a vowel?
19:09And a vowel?
19:09And a vowel?
19:10And a vowel?
19:10And a vowel?
19:11And a vowel?
19:11And a vowel?
19:11And a vowel?
19:12And a vowel?
19:12And a vowel?
19:13And a vowel?
19:13And a vowel?
19:14And a vowel?
19:15And a vowel?
19:15And a vowel?
19:16And a vowel?
19:16And a vowel?
19:17And a vowel?
19:17And a vowel?
19:18And a vowel?
19:19And a vowel?
19:19And a vowel?
19:20And a vowel?
19:31Yes, Lee.
19:35Six.
19:35A six, Toby.
19:36Seven.
19:37And a seven, Lee.
19:39Former.
19:40Former and?
19:41Forearm.
19:43Excellent.
19:43Forearm.
19:44Well done.
19:46Clearly you both had forearm.
19:48Yeah, we couldn't be there.
19:48That was our top one.
19:49That was it?
19:50Yes.
19:51Fifty-four, please.
19:52Thirty-nine, Toby.
19:54Numbers, here we go.
19:55An inverted T, please, Rachel.
19:57Don't need to ask any more.
19:58Thank you, Toby.
19:58Last time from you for a while.
20:00These five small ones are two, three, another three, eight, ten, and twenty-five.
20:10And the target, 661.
20:13Six, six, one.
20:30Well, Toby?
20:46Six, six, one.
20:48Lee?
20:49No, I lost it.
20:50Oh, bad luck.
20:51Toby?
20:52Twenty-five plus two.
20:55Twenty-seven.
20:56Times three.
20:57Times three is 81.
20:59Times eight.
21:00Times eight is 648.
21:02And add the ten and the three.
21:04Lovely.
21:04Well done.
21:05Six, six, one.
21:07Well done, Toby.
21:10Propels you now to 64 points, Lee Armstrong, 39, as we go into our second tea-time teaser,
21:16which is White Rose and the Clue.
21:19He thought the White Rose was the emblem of Lancashire, but everyone else knew different.
21:25He thought the White Rose was the emblem of Lancashire, but everyone else knew different.
21:31Welcome back.
21:47I left with the Clue.
21:48He thought the White Rose was the emblem of Lancashire, but everyone else knew different.
21:54In fact, everyone else knew otherwise.
21:58Otherwise is the answer.
21:59So, 64 to 39, and it's Lee's letters game.
22:04Lee.
22:05Consonant, please.
22:06Thank you, Lee.
22:07T.
22:08And a vowel.
22:10I.
22:11And a consonant.
22:14R.
22:15And a vowel.
22:16E.
22:17And a consonant.
22:19F.
22:20And a vowel.
22:22I.
22:23And a consonant.
22:25L.
22:26And a vowel.
22:28O.
22:28And a consonant.
22:30And lastly, R.
22:33Stand by.
22:34And a consonant.
22:35And a consonant.
22:35And a consonant.
22:36And a consonant.
22:36And a consonant.
22:36And a consonant.
22:37And a consonant.
22:37And a consonant.
22:37And a consonant.
22:37And a consonant.
22:38And a consonant.
22:38And a consonant.
22:39And a consonant.
22:39And a consonant.
22:39And a consonant.
22:39And a consonant.
22:40And a consonant.
22:40And a consonant.
22:40And a consonant.
22:40And a consonant.
22:41And a consonant.
22:41And a consonant.
22:41And a consonant.
22:42And a consonant.
22:42And a consonant.
22:43And a consonant.
22:43And a consonant.
22:43And a consonant.
22:44And a consonant.
22:44And a consonant.
22:45And a consonant.
22:45And a consonant.
22:46And a consonant.
22:47And a consonant.
22:47And a consonant.
22:48And a consonant.
22:48And a consonant.
23:04Well, Lee?
23:06Seven.
23:06Seven and?
23:08Seven.
23:09Seven for Toby.
23:10Lee?
23:11Lories.
23:12Lories and?
23:13Loiters.
23:14And loiters.
23:16Can we go beyond those two, I wonder?
23:19Dr Phil?
23:20I couldn't get beyond loitering by the lorries, but have you got one?
23:23A couple more sevens.
23:24Oiliest and toilers.
23:26Oh, yeah.
23:27Toilest.
23:28Very good.
23:28Well done.
23:29Well done, 71 to 46.
23:32Toby in the lead.
23:33And it's Toby's letters game now.
23:36A consonant, please.
23:37Thank you, Toby.
23:38T.
23:39And another.
23:41F.
23:43And another.
23:45R.
23:46A vowel.
23:48A.
23:49And another.
23:51U.
23:52And another.
23:54I.
23:55A consonant.
23:57M.
23:58A vowel.
24:00E.
24:01And a consonant, please.
24:03And lastly, D.
24:05Stand by.
24:06habl Alles of the English.
24:09Iät.
24:10And...
24:10a syllable.
24:13And next.
24:16I'll see you later.
24:17I'll see you later.
24:20Bye-bye.
24:20Audio.
24:20여러분들 is a怎樣.
24:21I'll see you later.
24:22I'll see you later.
24:23Move away.
24:23Truth.
24:23All right.
24:24I'll see you later.
24:24new et on Saturday,
24:25choses like you later.
24:25Yes, I'll see you later.
24:26Bye-bye.
24:26Give behold.
24:27Half a lap of the thé.
24:28Any other.
24:28Give.
24:30Bye-bye.
24:30True.
24:30number Floyd Kanye.
24:31Do once in the slightest.
24:31み terus.
24:32See you later.
24:32And see you later.
24:33Bye-bye.
24:34Ask a hypothesis.
24:35Cliffoubt.
24:35Toby?
24:39Eight.
24:40And eight, Lee?
24:41Six.
24:42And your six?
24:43Framed.
24:45Now then, Toby.
24:46Muterate.
24:47Ah, excellent.
24:51Of course that we didn't see that one.
24:53Yeah, it is there and it is the territory of Mudir
24:56in several North and East African countries.
24:59It means an administrative district or province.
25:02Very, very good.
25:02Oh, very good.
25:04Well done.
25:07Well done.
25:09Now, Susie, your origins of words delight us.
25:14Well, thank you to Anne Bodwell, who emailed me in.
25:17She says, in a recent quick crossword,
25:18the clue spondulics required the solution wonger.
25:22Could you explain the origins of these and other words for money?
25:26Sadly, I don't have time to go into all of the slang words for money
25:30because there are so many in English.
25:31But I will tell you about spondulics.
25:33That's Anne Wonger, which hopefully will answer some of Anne's questions.
25:38Spondulics is an odd one.
25:40It's originally American college slang.
25:42And one of its earliest appearances was in a piece in the New York magazine Vanity Fair.
25:47So this is in 1860, and it was a piece describing college life.
25:51And it goes, my friend the senior got out the spondulics and borrowed my watch to spout for the purpose of bucking the tiger.
25:58And to translate that, his friend had run out of money and pawned, spouted the watch, to get some more cash in order to buck the tiger,
26:07which was gamble on cards, probably farrow cards.
26:09So where does spondulics come from?
26:13Well, as you might expect, lots of theories for this one.
26:16Some people think that it's a slightly perverted form of greenback, although quite how you get from greenback to spondulics takes a bit of a leap of the imagination.
26:25There's another nice one that says it goes back to the Greek spondulikos, which meant a species of shell.
26:33And we do know that shells were once used as currency, used for money.
26:37But probably our best bet is that it goes back to a group of English words, which Phil will definitely know.
26:43And they all begin with spondilo, which was Greek for the backbone.
26:46I think spondylitis is a disorder of the backbone.
26:49And the idea is that a stack of coins might look like a spine going down.
26:54And you will find records that talk about spondulics being coins piled for counting.
26:59So we think our best bet is that it actually resembles the spine of a human being.
27:03And I'll finish with wonga.
27:04This one's much simpler.
27:06It goes back to a Romany word, wonga, with an R at the end, meaning coal.
27:10And we think this is because there was a Romany practice of collecting coal that had fallen from trains,
27:15and in turn using that to sell on and get money in return.
27:20Very good.
27:24Fascinating.
27:25Wonderful.
27:26Thank you, Susie.
27:2779 plays.
27:2846.
27:29Toby on 79.
27:30Lee's letters game.
27:32Good luck, Lee.
27:33Can I have a consonant, please?
27:35Thank you, Lee.
27:37N.
27:38And a vowel.
27:40I.
27:41And a consonant.
27:43D.
27:44And a consonant.
27:46S.
27:47And a vowel.
27:48E.
27:49And a consonant.
27:52G.
27:53And a vowel.
27:55I.
27:57Consonant.
27:59V.
28:01And a final consonant, please.
28:04And a final N.
28:06Stand by.
28:07E.
28:26Bye.
28:26Bye.
28:27Yes, Lee?
28:39Seven.
28:40A seven.
28:41Toby?
28:42I think I've got an eight.
28:44Let's try Lee first, then.
28:46Endings.
28:47Endings and Toby?
28:48Devising.
28:49Yeah.
28:50Yeah.
28:50It's definitely there.
28:51Devising.
28:51Well done.
28:55Well done.
28:57And Susie and Dr. Phil.
28:59Can't beat that.
29:01I like singed.
29:03Just I like the word, but it's, you know.
29:05Devising was as much as we got.
29:06It was.
29:07It'll do.
29:0887 plays 46.
29:10Toby, final letters game.
29:12Off we go.
29:13A consonant, please.
29:14Thank you, Toby.
29:15D.
29:16And another.
29:19S.
29:20And another.
29:22B.
29:24Vowel.
29:25A.
29:26And another.
29:27O.
29:28And another.
29:31I.
29:32A consonant.
29:34T.
29:35A vowel.
29:38E.
29:39And a consonant, please.
29:40And lastly, N.
29:44Countdown.
29:44One.
30:06And another.
30:08This is a Harmon, just a joke.
30:11Toby?
30:16Seven.
30:17Lee?
30:18Six.
30:19And the six is?
30:20Bated.
30:22Toby?
30:23Boaties.
30:24Yes.
30:25Do you know something?
30:26That's a bit of an earworm for you, isn't it?
30:29Yeah.
30:29Boaties.
30:31Now.
30:32Susie has an eight.
30:34O?
30:35Atomised.
30:36Atomised.
30:37Atomised.
30:38Very good.
30:38Well done.
30:43Anything else, though?
30:44There's a Modiste fashion maker or milliner.
30:47A Modiste, yeah.
30:47Yeah.
30:48Modiste.
30:50Numbers for Lee?
30:51Could I have two large and four small, please?
30:54You can indeed, thank you, Lee.
30:55Two large, four little.
30:56For the final one of the day, and this lot are six, one, eight, five, 25 and 50.
31:06And the target, 204.
31:09Two zero four.
31:10Absolutely.
31:11Have a great day.
31:13Bye-bye.
31:14Bye-bye.
31:15Bye-bye.
31:26Bye-bye.
31:27Bye-bye.
31:28Bye-bye.
31:35Bye-bye.
31:38Bye-bye.
31:39Lee?
31:43206.
31:44206 and?
31:46204.
31:47And 204.
31:49So?
31:5025 times 8 is 200.
31:53It is indeed.
31:54Plus 5 minus 1.
31:56204.
31:56Well done as ever.
31:58Well done.
32:00So you've done it again, Toby.
32:02Over 100.
32:03Well done indeed.
32:05In we go to the final round.
32:07To make you an octo champ.
32:09Fingers on buzzers.
32:11Let's roll today's countdown conundrum.
32:26Yes, Toby.
32:28Toby.
32:29We're moving on.
32:31Moving on.
32:32Rest of the time.
32:36No, we're foxed up here.
32:55Two great players.
32:56One particularly brilliant player.
32:58Who in the audience will beat the Toby?
33:01Do I say...
33:01Yes, sir?
33:02Advisable.
33:03Advisable.
33:04Let's see whether you're right.
33:07Well done.
33:11Look at that.
33:12I bet you got it afterwards, didn't you?
33:13Yeah.
33:14I bet you did.
33:15Listen, Toby, you're a great guy.
33:17Great fellow.
33:19882 points.
33:20Number two seed.
33:20But I'm coming back to you in a minute.
33:22Because I want to congratulate Lee Padovani.
33:25Because I don't think anybody else has actually led him for a while.
33:28Short-lived.
33:29So well it might have been.
33:31But nonetheless, you came through strongly.
33:33You take this goodie bag back to East Bolden, near Sunderland, with pride.
33:38I know somebody's coming back.
33:39That's Toby MacDonald.
33:40Our number two seed.
33:42Oh, that's something to pitch for.
33:44Number two seed.
33:46882 points.
33:47Well done.
33:48Thanks.
33:48We'll see you in the finals.
33:50Oh, Doctor.
33:51I'll see you on your tour.
33:52I'll see you behind the screen in about 15 minutes.
33:54You come back and see us soon again.
34:00Will do.
34:00I will do.
34:01Please do.
34:01All right.
34:02Well done.
34:02Thanks so much.
34:03See you soon, Susie.
34:04All right.
34:05Next time.
34:06Well, we've got our octo-jump then.
34:08Yeah, we do.
34:08And the longer this show goes on, the harder it is to find words that we've never heard of.
34:12And there's certainly been some new ones on me from Toby.
34:14He's a brilliant young man.
34:16I look forward to seeing him back in the finals.
34:18All right.
34:19See you next time.
34:19See you then.
34:20Join us then.
34:21Two new contestants.
34:22Same time, same place.
34:23You'll be sure of it.
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