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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:03APPLAUSE
00:31Hello and welcome to Countdown.
00:33On this day in 1804, Napoleon became Emperor of France.
00:39But it didn't end well.
00:41He got exiled to Elba, he escaped from there,
00:44and then we Brits sent him all the way to St Helena,
00:48which still takes about a year and a half to get to and from.
00:52Hi, Rachel. Oh, there you go. I've learned something new.
00:55I don't know much about that part of history,
00:58but I've been to Les Invalides in Paris. Have you been? Yeah.
01:01Where his tomb is in the most amazing building
01:04and they do a projection show
01:06to give you a little bit of the history of the revolution, etc,
01:09and then you get a night-time sneak into the tomb.
01:11I think the French were still rather proud of him, actually.
01:14Let's meet our contestants.
01:16Ryan, sixth game. Yep.
01:19Fantastic. Ryan's from Glasgow.
01:22He's a big-time banker and he's good at conundrums.
01:26You're not bad at arithmetic either, are you? I try my best.
01:30And now you've got a good contestant against you.
01:33You've got Ed. What do you do, Ed?
01:36I'm a mental health nurse.
01:38Oh, where are you from? Because you sound reasonably like Ryan.
01:42So I grew up in Shetland.
01:44I have lived in Glasgow, but I live in Birmingham at the moment.
01:47You're a mental health nurse. Where do you do that?
01:50I work in various hospitals around the Birmingham area
01:54in the West Midlands,
01:56just doing occasional shifts
01:58because most of the time I'm at home looking after my daughter.
02:01Oh, really? Have you got a nice wife? Yes.
02:04What does she do?
02:06She's a doctor, so she's much cleverer than I am.
02:09Yeah, well, Ryan's got a doctor wife
02:12and she's much cleverer than him.
02:14Mm-hm. It's not...
02:16It's a pretty low bar for me, so...
02:19OK. Is it low bar for you, Ryan?
02:22Yeah, it's not the highest.
02:24Oh, I think I forced him to say that.
02:26A round of applause for our contestant.
02:28APPLAUSE
02:31Hi, Susie. Hi, Han.
02:33And hi again to Nicky Chapman.
02:35Hi. Lovely to be back.
02:37Yeah, lovely dress. Thank you.
02:39Very nice indeed.
02:41Let's get on with the game. Ryan, your letters.
02:43Hi, Rachel. Hi, Ryan.
02:45Can I have O, please? You can indeed.
02:47Let's start today with O.
02:50And another one.
02:52E. And another.
02:54O. And another.
02:56I.
02:58A consonant, please.
03:00L. And another one.
03:02N. And another.
03:04T. And another one.
03:06G.
03:08And a final consonant.
03:10And a final S.
03:12Let's play Countdown.
03:17ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
03:43Ryan. Eight.
03:45Just a seven.
03:47What's your seven? Longest.
03:49Ryan. Lunniest.
03:51Yes, in the dictionary. Well done.
03:53APPLAUSE
03:57Any more eights over there?
03:59We've got oilstone for eight.
04:01And there is a nine there, in fact.
04:03And I love this kind of person.
04:05A neologist is someone who creates new words.
04:08Thank you, Susie.
04:10APPLAUSE
04:12Ed, your letters.
04:14Could I get a consonant, please?
04:16You can indeed. N.
04:18And another one, please.
04:20M.
04:22And another one, please.
04:24D. And a vowel, please.
04:26U. And a vowel, please.
04:28I.
04:30And a consonant, please.
04:32R.
04:34And another vowel, please.
04:36E.
04:38Er...
04:40Another vowel, please.
04:42A.
04:44And a final consonant, please.
04:46A final W.
04:48Time starts now.
04:50ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
05:12ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
05:18Ed?
05:20Just a six.
05:22Ryan? Seven.
05:24What's your six?
05:26Minder.
05:28Ryan? Unarmed.
05:30Very good, a seven.
05:32In the corner?
05:34We also had another seven. Manured.
05:36Oh, yeah.
05:38And if you take Ryan's unarmed and put the W in there,
05:41Ryan, your numbers.
05:43I'll have one from the top this time, Rachel.
05:45You've diverted from your usual six small to start with.
05:48Let's have a look what we have this time.
05:50They are three, nine,
05:53one, two,
05:55five and 100.
05:57I think that means he's tiring it.
05:59The target, 476.
06:01476.
06:03ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYS
06:11ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONTINUES
06:33Ryan? 476.
06:35Ed? I think I've got 476.
06:37Good. Ryan?
06:39Five times 100.
06:41500.
06:43Nine minus one. Eight.
06:45Multiply by three. 24.
06:47Take it away. 476. Lovely.
06:49Ed? Slightly massier way.
06:51I did the five times 100 for 500
06:54and then nine times three...
06:56Yes. ..for 27.
06:58Take away the two, take away the one.
07:00424. And eventually take all of that away.
07:03Same result, well done. Well done.
07:05APPLAUSE
07:07First teaser. Bit dense, bit dense.
07:10And the clue.
07:12He's a bit dense but he's very flexible.
07:14He's a bit dense but he's very flexible.
07:16See you in a minute.
07:24APPLAUSE
07:31Welcome back. I left you with the clue.
07:33He's a bit dense but he's very flexible.
07:36And the answer is bendiest.
07:39The scores are 25-10.
07:42Early days, though, Ed.
07:44And your letters.
07:46Thanks. Could I get a vowel, please?
07:49Thank you, Ed. E.
07:51And another, please.
07:53A. And a third, please.
07:55E. And a fourth, please.
07:58U.
08:00And a consonant, please.
08:02T.
08:04And another consonant, please.
08:06B.
08:08And another consonant, please.
08:10T.
08:12And another, please.
08:14G.
08:16Hmm. And a final consonant, please.
08:19A bit more challenging. A final M.
08:2230 seconds.
08:34CLOCK TICKS
08:54Ed. Another six.
08:56Ryan. Eight.
08:58What's your six? Mutate.
09:00Ryan. Baguette.
09:02Baguette.
09:04Yes. Well done. Well swatted in that one. Excellent.
09:07In the corner? We don't have any others more than that, do we?
09:10No. That was ours and then we two were down to sixes, so, yeah, well done.
09:13OK. Ryan, your letters.
09:15I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
09:17Thank you, Ryan. S.
09:19And another.
09:21R.
09:23And one more.
09:25J.
09:27And another one.
09:29N. A vowel.
09:31And another.
09:33E. And another.
09:35O. And one more.
09:38E. Another one.
09:40And a final consonant, please.
09:42Final T.
09:44Good luck.
10:02CLOCK TICKS
10:16Ryan. Six.
10:18Ed. Six.
10:20Ryan. Stoner.
10:22Ed. Jester.
10:24Yes. Both nice.
10:26Nicky, Susie.
10:28Susie did, that's the honest truth.
10:30Entrees. Yes. Entrees were there for seven,
10:32otherwise down to sixes as well.
10:34Serene was a nice one.
10:36Ed, you were saying you're often at home looking after your daughter.
10:39Mm-hm. How old is she?
10:41She'll be... She's nine now.
10:43Yeah. So she's at school, presumably?
10:46If you call my living room school, yeah. We homeschool.
10:49Do you? Yes.
10:51Gosh. So you were one of the few people
10:53who weren't alarmed during the pandemic.
10:56It's business as usual for us, yeah.
10:58Yeah. And what subjects are you good at
11:01that you feel you're satisfied the way you teach her?
11:05We do an awful lot of history together
11:08and we do an awful lot of studying nature,
11:11but she's getting to know a fairly broad number of categories,
11:16a broad number of subjects.
11:18And will that take her to GCSE without any trouble?
11:21Should do, yeah. She's a bright kid.
11:23That's lovely.
11:25I'll have one large and five small, please, Rachel.
11:28Thank you, Ed. One from a top pro and five not.
11:31And maths lesson is under way.
11:33These numbers are 3, 8, 2, 5, 4 and the large one, 50.
11:40And the target to reach.
11:42Oh, dear. 106.
11:45106.
11:55MUSIC PLAYS
12:17Ed? 106.
12:19Ryan? 106.
12:21Ed? 50 x 2?
12:24100.
12:26And then round the houses again. 4-3 is 1.
12:30Yeah. Add the 5.
12:324-6.
12:344-6 and add it all on.
12:36A million ways for this one.
12:38Ryan? I did 50 plus 3.
12:4053. Times 2.
12:42106. Lovely.
12:47Nicky, I know you're back filming Escape To The Country.
12:50Yeah. I love Escape To The Country.
12:5220 years it's been going.
12:54Yeah. I mean, I am astonished at the bravery of people
13:00taking that leap.
13:02Yeah. Possibly without jobs, isn't it?
13:05Well, yeah, you hope that people have done a little bit of research.
13:08Often it's the dream.
13:10Certainly in the last few years we've seen an influx of people
13:13wanting to move to the country.
13:15But I also think you've got to be quite realistic.
13:17You've got to make sure that if you want a community around you,
13:20that you're not too far, perhaps from a market town,
13:23and you make new friends.
13:25And really thinking it through.
13:27Because what we've noticed over the years on the show,
13:29and I haven't been there for 20 years,
13:31but I've been there quite a while,
13:33is that it isn't now just about bricks and mortar.
13:35Houses are very expensive.
13:37The average price of a house, I think,
13:39is like £420,000 for detached property.
13:41It was half that 10 years ago.
13:43So not only are you going to want the house of your dreams,
13:46but also you've got to look at the location
13:48and see if that works for you, for your lifestyle.
13:50And I think people are really looking at that.
13:52But none of you ever mention,
13:54if you're on the West Coast, the North West,
13:57lots and lots more rain than if you're in Yorkshire.
14:00It's amazing, though, when you go around.
14:02If you take Oxfordshire, for example, as a county,
14:05which is super expensive.
14:07If anyone's thinking of going there and living in the country,
14:09get your wallets ready.
14:11But it really varies.
14:13And, you know, people talk about microclimates the whole time.
14:16It is amazing when you can go to a county
14:18and one side will be dry and the other side won't.
14:21But that's a really valid point.
14:23You know, do your homework and have a look.
14:25And Devon. Devon's beautiful.
14:27One of the reasons, it gets an awful lot of rain.
14:30The other thing that fascinates me time and time again
14:34is couples can almost make a decision
14:38on what the fireplace looks like.
14:40Or whether it's got a snug. Yeah.
14:43Fireplace. I think that's all you need is a nice fireplace.
14:46Is that right?
14:48See, when I'm looking at houses,
14:50you know, we were recently obsessed with open plan, weren't we?
14:54Yeah.
14:55Whereas now, with people being able to start up businesses at home,
14:58some people have the luxury of working from home.
15:01In actual fact, you are going to need a separate study
15:04or perhaps not open plan any more.
15:06So I think our needs are changing.
15:08But it's amazing.
15:10One of the most frustrating things is when they say,
15:13we love the house, but the kitchen table won't fit in the kitchen.
15:17And I'm like, for goodness sakes, buy a new table.
15:19Donate that one to charity.
15:21The other thing is, there seems to be very little time
15:24for them to make up their mind.
15:26There are three houses that have been offered. Yeah.
15:29And by the end, you're saying to them,
15:32are you thinking of buying that? Will you make an offer now?
15:36Yeah. Well, about 40% of the people that we have on the show
15:39have actually moved to the country,
15:41which is a really high ratio, if you think about it.
15:44Not necessarily to our houses,
15:46but quite often to areas that we've shown them
15:49that they might not have considered before.
15:51So I'm going to claim that as a win.
15:53And what I love on Escape is actually going back and revisiting them
15:57and seeing how they're getting on and how they've settled.
16:00But it is a big leap. You're absolutely right.
16:02It's such a big thing to move,
16:04especially if you're not moving 50 miles,
16:06when you're moving 150, 200 miles.
16:08It is a leap of faith sometimes,
16:10but also you've got to put the effort in.
16:12You know, you've got to look out the community,
16:14you've got to be respectful of the local culture
16:16and immerse yourself in it.
16:18I think that's the one piece of advice I always give everybody.
16:21Don't just fall in love with a house.
16:23Look at the area around and will it suit your needs?
16:26Are people sometimes escaping from something?
16:30I think so. I know it's the name of the show.
16:32Yeah, I think so.
16:34I think sometimes people just want a complete change.
16:37And, again, what we've noticed,
16:39it's not just couples of a certain age.
16:41We have young, we have, you know, through the decades,
16:44we have a lot of single people now applying to the show.
16:47I had a gorgeous lady who was moving with her dog down to Devon.
16:50And, you know, because houses have gone up in price so much,
16:54we did manage to find her that rural retreat for her and her dog.
16:57And it wasn't quite the house that she wanted, but she was realistic.
17:01Because once you move into an area,
17:03it's much easier to find properties that you do want
17:05because they're being snapped up within days now.
17:08Not weeks or months, days.
17:10So she was, you know, she was sus.
17:12She first of all said, I'm not too sure,
17:14and then when we told her what the market was like,
17:16we had five houses, six houses we'd seen,
17:18and they'd all fallen through because people had put offers in.
17:21She then became more realistic, has bought it,
17:23going to be there for a couple of years, and then she's going to look again.
17:26Fascinating. Nicky Chapman, thank you. Thank you.
17:30Ryan, your last group.
17:32Have a consonant, please, Rachel. Thank you, Ryan.
17:35D
17:37And another one.
17:39B
17:40And another.
17:42R
17:43And another one.
17:45N
17:46Go for a vowel.
17:48O
17:49And another.
17:50A
17:51And another.
17:53I
17:54And another vowel.
17:56U
17:59And a final consonant, please.
18:01A final T.
18:03Let's play Countdown.
18:28MUSIC PLAYS
18:35Ryan? Try a seven.
18:37Ed? Stick with a six.
18:39What's your six? Around.
18:41Ryan? Inboard.
18:43Yes, inboard as well as onboard,
18:46near the centre of a ship or aircraft. Well done.
18:49In the corner? Got unitard as well for seven.
18:52All-in-one leotard.
18:54And duration for eight. Very good.
18:57Ed, when you're homeschooling,
18:59is there a limit to the point where you're competent enough?
19:03I mean, will you be able to teach maths at GCSE level?
19:07Not based on today's performance, I don't think.
19:10Right. OK, I'll think about that.
19:13You can do your letters. Thanks.
19:16Could I get a consonant, please, Rachel?
19:18Thank you, Ed. M
19:20And another, please.
19:22S
19:24And a third, please.
19:26P
19:28And a vowel, please.
19:30U
19:32And another, please. I
19:34And a third vowel, please.
19:36E
19:38And a consonant, please.
19:40R
19:42Another consonant, please.
19:44H
19:46And a final consonant, please.
19:49A final G.
19:51Start the clock.
19:53MUSIC PLAYS
19:57MUSIC CONTINUES
20:22Ed? I'll go for a seven this time.
20:24Ryan? I just had a six.
20:26What's your six? Grumps.
20:28Ed? Umpires.
20:30Very good. Yeah, very nice.
20:32In the corner?
20:34We've also got Murphys.
20:36Oh. Yes.
20:38Which is, I think, a slang term, anyway, for a potato.
20:43Or potatoes, in the plural.
20:46And grumpish, which just means bad-tempered and sulky.
20:49Thank you. Ryan, your numbers.
20:52No, I'll take the six small, please, Rachel.
20:54Thank you, Ryan. Six little ones.
20:56He's either woken up or you've got one in the run, Ed.
20:59Let's see. The little ones are nine, four, two, ten,
21:05another two and six.
21:07And the target this time, 689.
21:10689.
21:12MUSIC PLAYS
21:22MUSIC CONTINUES
21:42Ryan?
21:44A 684.
21:46Ed?
21:48A 684, yeah.
21:509 x 4.
21:529 x 4, 36.
21:54x 2.
21:56x 2, 72.
21:58Take away the 2.
22:00Take away the second 2 for 70.
22:02Multiply that by 10.
22:04700.
22:06And... Oh, sorry, no, I'm...
22:08I'm wrong.
22:10I don't have enough left.
22:12Ed?
22:149 plus 2.
22:1611.
22:18Take away the other 2.
22:2068.
22:22And multiply by 10.
22:24680.
22:26And then add on the 4.
22:28And you have 4 left over. Nicely done.
22:30Rachel?
22:32I can get you to 690, but this one was impossible.
22:34So, yeah, good effort.
22:36OK. Second teaser coming up.
22:38Toning up, toning up.
22:40And the clue,
22:42it's not the best way of achieving something,
22:44but it's effective.
22:46See you in a minute.
23:02Welcome back.
23:04I left you with the clue,
23:06it's not the best way of achieving something,
23:08but it's effective.
23:10And the answer is gunpoint.
23:12The scores are 56 to 40.
23:14Ed's just had a good round.
23:16And it's your letters.
23:18Thanks very much.
23:20Could I get a consonant start, please?
23:22Thank you, Ed.
23:24C.
23:26And another, please.
23:28N.
23:30And another, please.
23:32S.
23:34And we'll take a fourth consonant, please.
23:36L.
23:38And a vowel, please.
23:40U.
23:42And another vowel, please.
23:44I.
23:46A consonant, please.
23:48S.
23:50And a...
23:52Oh.
23:54Final consonant, please.
23:56Final P.
23:58Good luck.
24:12MUSIC
24:28Ed?
24:30Six.
24:32Ryan? Six.
24:34Ed? Spines.
24:36Ryan? Uncles.
24:38Yes. And the corner?
24:40Um, quite unusual eights, actually.
24:42There was, um... Skullpins.
24:44Well, skullpins are marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere,
24:46with spiny scales and fins.
24:48And there's also, um,
24:50spicules, which are tiny,
24:52really sharp, um, objects.
24:54Like an icicle would be a spicule.
24:56Thank you.
24:58Ryan, I suppose when you're doing arithmetic at work,
25:00you just use a calculator.
25:02Uh, not even.
25:04It's more spreadsheets these days.
25:06So you don't have to add anything up?
25:08No.
25:10Everything is input on the keyboard,
25:12and I don't really do
25:14very much arithmetic, except for when I'm helping my son
25:16with his schoolwork.
25:18OK. Easy-peasy. Your letters.
25:20We'll have a vowel, please, Rachel.
25:22Thank you, Ryan.
25:24A. And another.
25:26E. And another.
25:28O.
25:30A consonant.
25:32G. And another.
25:34S. And another.
25:36L.
25:38And another one.
25:40K.
25:42A vowel.
25:44I.
25:46And a final consonant.
25:48A final M.
25:50Start the clock.
25:52TINKLY MUSIC
26:06TINKLY MUSIC
26:22Ryan. Seven.
26:24Ed. And a sad five.
26:26Oh, OK. What's your sad five?
26:28Slime.
26:30Ryan. Goalies.
26:32Yes. Excellent.
26:34I think that was it, wasn't it?
26:36Yeah, we were with goalies as well.
26:38Oh, OK. Anne, over to you, Susie.
26:40Thank you. Well, yesterday, Anne,
26:42I spoke a little bit about how English
26:44moves ahead and evolves through
26:46mistakes quite often, and it's one
26:48of my favourite subjects because
26:50it almost always involves just one
26:52person, and there's such a
26:54mis-seeing, if you like, of
26:56one particular person who then made a mistake,
26:58and it has stayed with us ever since.
27:00And the one that I love talking about is Ghost,
27:02where a Flemish-speaking
27:04typesetter who worked for William
27:06Caxton saw the Old English
27:08Ghost, G-O-S-T, and thought,
27:10that looks all wrong, because his
27:12Flemish was geist at the
27:14time, G-H-E-E-S-T, so he
27:16lobbed an H in our ghost, and we've
27:18been stuck with it ever since. Likewise,
27:20ghastly, and a ghast didn't have an H,
27:22but because of that single decision
27:24by a single person, who will forever be anonymous,
27:26we've stayed with that historical
27:28hiccup, which I love. So I thought I'd give you
27:30a couple more.
27:32One is gravy.
27:34So by rights, we shouldn't really be putting
27:36gravy on our mashed potatoes,
27:38but grainy, because
27:40this goes back to one 14th century
27:42translator who misread a French
27:44cookbook, and
27:46simply saw a granée,
27:48G-R-A-N-E, which
27:50is related to the word grain,
27:52because obviously we talk about gravy granules, don't we?
27:54So it's all linked, if you like.
27:56And then put in a V
27:58instead of the N, and then others copied,
28:00particularly because he was one of the first
28:02to translate this book into English,
28:04and the mistake then got replicated
28:06over and over, and we are stuck with
28:08our gravy, which I think is probably
28:10nicer than grainy, to be fair.
28:12And then there's tweed.
28:14If you have a tweed suit,
28:16obviously that's a type of wool, but that
28:18comes from a misunderstanding by one
28:20cloth merchant in 1830
28:22of the Scottish word twill,
28:24which is their version of twill.
28:26Twill's based on two,
28:28because there's a two-ply yarn.
28:30And obviously, he was
28:32thinking of the Tweed River in Scotland,
28:34and if you think about Scottish and English aristocracy,
28:36they were all wearing these twill suits.
28:38So he probably
28:40made that assumption that it was tweed because of it.
28:42And regardless of how it happened,
28:44tweed became an established word
28:46for that particular cloth. In London
28:48it became very, very fashionable, and
28:50tweel was totally forgotten, and we have
28:52stayed with tweed ever since. Thank you, Suzy.
28:54You're welcome.
28:56APPLAUSE
28:5869-46.
29:00Round 12.
29:02Ed, your letters.
29:04I'll take a consonant, please, Rachel.
29:06Thank you, Ed. F
29:08And another, please.
29:10T And another, please.
29:12D
29:14And a vowel, please.
29:16U
29:18And another vowel. A
29:20And another vowel, please.
29:22O
29:24A consonant, please.
29:26C
29:28Another consonant. R
29:30And a final vowel, please.
29:32A final A.
29:34Off you go.
29:36MUSIC
29:52MUSIC
29:54MUSIC
29:56MUSIC
29:58MUSIC
30:00MUSIC
30:02MUSIC
30:04MUSIC
30:06Ed?
30:08Another five.
30:10Ryan? Six.
30:12What's your five, Ed?
30:14Carrot. Ryan?
30:16Factor. Yes.
30:18In the corner.
30:20Yes. Very old word for a car.
30:22But it helps us out here, yeah.
30:24Gets us to a seven.
30:26Ryan, well ahead of the game now. Your letters.
30:28I'll have a vowel, please, Rachel.
30:30Thank you, Ryan. E
30:32And another.
30:34E And another.
30:36I
30:38A consonant. H
30:40And another. P
30:42And another. D
30:44One more. T
30:46A vowel.
30:48O
30:50And a final consonant.
30:52F Final R.
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31:26Ryan? Seven.
31:28Ed? Six.
31:30What's your six? Torpid.
31:32Ryan? Peridot.
31:34Yes.
31:36Torpid, also lethargic.
31:38And peridot is a green, semi-precious stone.
31:40We improve on seven.
31:42Privy. Privy, yes.
31:44Come for a coffee, I privy.
31:46So, yes.
31:48Old-fashioned, I pray, I beseech.
31:50Privy for seven.
31:52Round 14.
31:54Ed, another chance to raise that figure of yours.
31:56Not much chance,
31:58but I'll take one large
32:00and another five small, please.
32:02Thank you. One large, five.
32:04A little finish off the contest, maths-wise.
32:06And the last selection is six,
32:08one, nine, five,
32:10seven and 75.
32:12And the final target...
32:14998.
32:16998.
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32:48Ed.
32:50Er, no, I think I've gone completely wrong, sorry.
32:52Ryan.
32:54997.
32:56OK.
32:586 plus 7.
33:006 plus 7 is 13.
33:0275 plus 1.
33:0475 plus 1, 76.
33:06Multiply those.
33:08Just the one away.
33:10Rachel.
33:12I can find you another way for one away, but leave this one with me.
33:14OK, thank you.
33:16We are into the final round.
33:18The scores are
33:2089 to 46.
33:22Fingers on buzzers.
33:24Please reveal
33:26today's Countdown Conundrum.
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33:36Ryan.
33:38Surcharge.
33:40Let's have a look.
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33:46Ed, he's
33:48irritatingly good at conundrums.
33:50Yes, I was hoping to be up against somebody less competent, but...
33:52Do all mental health
33:54nurses have big earrings like yours?
33:56Er, just the cool ones.
33:58OK. Well, thank you for being cool with us.
34:00Er, commiserations.
34:02Thank you very much.
34:04Congratulations again.
34:06Thank you. Susie, thank you.
34:08Thank you. Thank you, Dickie. Thank you.
34:10Rachel. I've got loads more ways
34:12for one away, so homeschooling for me tonight.
34:14OK.
34:16Thank you for watching. Bye.
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