Countdown | Monday 13th March 2017 | Episode 6538
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00:00This programme contains strong language and adult humour.
00:19CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:33Now, it's all happening in Austria,
00:37because athletes will be arriving from all over the world,
00:41including 21 from Britain,
00:44to represent Britain in the Special Olympic World Winter Games.
00:49Of course, the Special Olympics are for those with intellectual disabilities.
00:53And we wish all our athletes the very best of luck.
00:5821 of them, go Britain, as it were. Go Team Britain.
01:02It's fantastic. Winter sports.
01:05I used to be able to ski a bit. Not great, but OK.
01:08And the last time, it all fell terribly apart.
01:12I skied for a day, fell over, I was pulled up by two teenagers
01:15who tore all the muscles in my neck and my arm,
01:18and that was the last of my holiday.
01:20So there we are. You're a skier, too.
01:22Well, I only started late. When I was 29, I went for the first time.
01:26So I'm fond of the Yardzale.
01:28I've only been in America, so the Yardzale is when you go down,
01:31you hit something like a mogul, you don't see it, you go flying,
01:34and one ski ends up there, one pole ends up over there,
01:36basically all your stuff is scattered around the snow,
01:39and it's the metaphorical Yardzale.
01:41Indeed. And you wear a helmet, I trust.
01:43Of course I wear a helmet with my Viking horns on the top and my beard.
01:47You didn't.
01:49I did. I've shown you the pictures. It's brilliant.
01:51Everyone thought I was a Minnesota Vikings fan.
01:54They'd say, great game on the weekend,
01:56and then when I'd speak back with an English girl's accent,
01:58they'd be a little bit confused.
02:00But, yeah, it protects your head anyway.
02:02Anyway. But you're, you know, hooked on it now?
02:05I love it, yeah. It's brilliant.
02:07It's nice being outside and the nature and quiet and trees and it's lovely.
02:12It's such a huge sport now for everybody, you know.
02:15I mean, it's a massive winter sport now, isn't it?
02:17Yeah. Great fun.
02:19Anyway, good luck down in Austria to our team GB.
02:22Good luck to you all.
02:24And good luck also to Laurie Collingwood,
02:26who just breezed through on Friday with 103 in his first game out.
02:31It was a fantastic achievement.
02:33A retired teacher from Barton-on-Humber.
02:36Fantastic. Well done.
02:38And you're joined by Gwen Smithies,
02:40a retired counsellor from Tunbridge,
02:42who's an indoor bowler.
02:45Yeah, you play up to five times a week.
02:47Where do you play? Which club do you play for?
02:49Angel. The Angel in Tunbridge.
02:51It's a lovely place.
02:52A lot of people in the town don't even seem to know it's there,
02:55but we're looking for members, so...
02:57That's good. Is it the one and only bowls club in the town?
03:01Yes, the only indoor bowls club in the town, yes.
03:04All right, well, good luck to you both.
03:06Good luck to Gwen and good luck to Laurie.
03:14And over in the corner, of course, Susie.
03:16He's been just a great guest.
03:18First time out and he's been an absolute joy.
03:20It's dancer and choreographer Pasha Kovalev.
03:24Welcome back, Pasha.
03:28You've been such a pleasure to have, actually,
03:30and I know that you're off on tour now.
03:32Big 58 performance tour, Dance The Night Away.
03:36I hope it's a great success.
03:37When it's over, you come back and tell us about it.
03:39All right? Jolly good.
03:41Now, Laurie. Laurie Collingwood.
03:43Letters.
03:45Good afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, Laurie.
03:47Vowel, please.
03:48Thank you. Start the week with I.
03:51And another.
03:53A.
03:54A third.
03:56I.
03:58And a consonant.
04:00P.
04:01And another consonant.
04:03R.
04:05And a third consonant.
04:07H.
04:09And a vowel.
04:11O.
04:13A consonant, please.
04:15T.
04:16And another consonant.
04:17And lastly, L.
04:20And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:48Yes, Laurie?
04:50Six.
04:51A six, Gwen?
04:53Only five.
04:54And that five?
04:55Pilot.
04:56Pilot and Laurie.
04:58Portal.
04:59Yes.
05:00Pretty neat.
05:01And Pasha, Susie?
05:03Portal was also our word,
05:05and I think six is the best we could get with this.
05:09That's it?
05:10Let's leave it there.
05:11All right.
05:12Laurie's opened the batting here, six points,
05:14and it's Gwen's letters game now.
05:16Gwen.
05:17Can we start with a consonant, please?
05:19We can, thank you, Gwen.
05:20P.
05:21And another.
05:23R.
05:25And another.
05:27L.
05:28And now a vowel, please.
05:30E.
05:31And another.
05:33A.
05:34And another.
05:36U.
05:38A consonant.
05:40R.
05:42A consonant.
05:44V.
05:46And a vowel.
05:47And the last one.
05:49A.
05:50Stand by.
06:13Yes, Gwen?
06:15Um, seven.
06:17Seven, Laurie.
06:19Dodgy six.
06:21Yes, Laurie.
06:23Larap.
06:25As in to wallop someone, to hit someone.
06:27To larap them.
06:28Oh, good laraping.
06:30Gwen, what have you got?
06:32Palaver.
06:33A palaver.
06:35A palaver.
06:37A palaver.
06:39A palaver.
06:41A palaver.
06:43Well done.
06:44He created such a palaver.
06:46Yes.
06:47Brilliant, isn't it?
06:48Now, then.
06:49Palaver.
06:50That's it?
06:51That's the best we've got, too.
06:52All right.
06:53So, seven.
06:54It's worth getting that.
06:55English word, that one, isn't it?
06:56Yeah.
06:57Very good.
06:58Seven for Gwen.
06:59Laurie on six.
07:00And it's Laurie's numbers game now.
07:02Laurie.
07:03One answer, please, Rachel.
07:04Five small.
07:05Thank you, Laurie.
07:06One from the top row and five small ones.
07:08So, the big one, Laurie, is nine, two, one, three, eight,
07:15and the big one, 25.
07:17And the target, 257.
07:20257.
07:39MUSIC PLAYS
07:51Laurie.
07:52257.
07:53257.
07:54Gwen.
07:55258.
07:56258.
07:57We'll stick with Laurie for the minute, then.
07:59OK.
08:00Eight plus three minus one is ten.
08:02Yep.
08:03Times 25.
08:04250.
08:05250.
08:06Nine minus two is seven.
08:07257.
08:08Well done.
08:09APPLAUSE
08:11Well done, Laurie.
08:13With the score 16 to Gwen's seven,
08:15we turn to our first Tea Time teaser, which is Given Care.
08:19And the clue...
08:20She wasn't given appropriate care in hospital, so filed a complaint.
08:24She wasn't given appropriate care in hospital, so filed a complaint.
08:31MUSIC PLAYS
08:38APPLAUSE
08:45Welcome back, welcome back. I left you with the clue.
08:48She wasn't given appropriate care in hospital, so filed a complaint.
08:54And the answer to that one is grievance.
08:57She wanted her grievance answered.
09:0116 plays seven, Laurie in the lead, and it's Gwen's Letters Game.
09:06A consonant, please, Rachel.
09:08Thank you, Gwen. D.
09:10And another?
09:12W.
09:14And another?
09:16G.
09:18And a vowel, please?
09:20O.
09:22And a second?
09:23U.
09:24And a third?
09:26E.
09:28And a consonant?
09:30H.
09:32And another consonant?
09:34S.
09:35And a final consonant, please?
09:37And a final J.
09:39Stand by.
10:04MUSIC PLAYS
10:11Gwen.
10:12Six.
10:13A six, Laurie.
10:14Try a seven.
10:16Gwen.
10:17Judges.
10:18Judges and...
10:19..suffed or sowed.
10:21S-O-U-G-H-E-D.
10:22Yes.
10:23Sowed, mostly, but you can say suffed as well.
10:25Dictionary gives both.
10:27A very poetic term.
10:29It describes the wind in the trees or the sea
10:32to make a moaning, whistling or rushing sound.
10:35I know some people who make that noise.
10:3823 plays seven, Laurie in the lead,
10:40and it's Laurie's letters round.
10:44A vowel, please, Rachel.
10:46Thank you, Laurie. I.
10:48Second?
10:49O.
10:50And a third?
10:52I.
10:54Consonant, please?
10:56T.
10:58Another consonant?
11:01A consonant?
11:03Q.
11:05Another consonant?
11:07T.
11:09A vowel?
11:11O.
11:15And a vowel, please?
11:18Good luck with this lot.
11:20E.
11:21Stand by.
11:23MUSIC PLAYS
11:30MUSIC STOPS
11:53Laurie?
11:54Six.
11:55A six? Gwen?
11:57Six.
11:58Two sixes, yes.
12:00Footy?
12:01Footy and...?
12:02Footy.
12:03Footy and footy. That was about it, I think, wasn't it?
12:05Yes.
12:06Any advance on footy?
12:07No.
12:08We have a third footy.
12:10That's it?
12:11Yes.
12:12All right. 29 plays 13.
12:14And, Gwen, your numbers round.
12:17Can I have three large and three small, please, Rachel?
12:20You can, indeed. Thank you, Gwen.
12:22Three big ones, three little ones,
12:24and your round is one, seven, two, 25, 100 and 50.
12:32And the target, 817.
12:35817.
12:37MUSIC PLAYS
12:55MUSIC STOPS
13:06Yes, Gwen?
13:08825.
13:10Mm. How about Laurie?
13:12I think about 816.
13:14Let's try, Laurie.
13:16100 plus two?
13:17100 plus two, 102.
13:19Seven plus one?
13:21Seven plus one, eight.
13:22Multiply them.
13:23Yep, one away, 816.
13:25Well done. But 817 is really what we wanted. Can you help?
13:29There are so many ways for one away, but this one is impossible.
13:33So well done, Laurie.
13:34Very well done.
13:35All right. 36 plays 13.
13:37And we turn now to Pasha.
13:39And, Pasha, you're born in Siberia,
13:41and you've got rather an alarming story to tell us
13:44about one day in Siberia.
13:47Well, there are a lot of days in Siberia that I want to tell you about.
13:51And, you know, people's perspective of Russia and Siberia in particular
13:55is quite interesting, because anyone you ask,
13:58they would say, oh, it's cold.
14:00Yes, that's true.
14:01And just a fact, in my hometown,
14:04eight months out of the year, it's covered with snow.
14:07And another thing people always bring up is bears.
14:12And that's true.
14:13You can meet a bear in Siberia.
14:15One time, I was quite young, maybe around 10, 11 years old.
14:21I was in summer camp, kind of ran away from the grounds,
14:25went into forest to have some berries,
14:28and was enjoying my raspberries.
14:31They were absolutely gorgeous.
14:33I hear some sound on the other side of the bush,
14:36and I look up, and it was a bear doing the same thing,
14:39just eating through that raspberry bush from the other side.
14:43I'm not sure if it saw me or not, but I'm still here.
14:48And another thing people usually associate Russia with is mafia.
14:54Maybe not as much as Italy, but Russian mafia is a real thing,
14:58and I actually had experience with mafia.
15:02Not that I was involved, but one of my friends
15:05had some sort of business going on, and then he disappeared.
15:11They knew where I was.
15:13They didn't know where he was, so they came and fetched me.
15:17I didn't know what to do.
15:18I mean, there were four guys, really big.
15:22They don't speak much.
15:23They said, you, car, now.
15:26What's going on?
15:27They tried to explain what's happening.
15:29I said, I need to call.
15:31I need to make a quick call to my grandmother.
15:34She would be very, very alarmed if I'm not going to be there.
15:39In the meanwhile, I called my friends.
15:42I said, you better get out of there.
15:45And went in the car with four gentlemen.
15:49I mean, you don't have a choice when they're standing next to you
15:52and threaten you like that.
15:54So I spent almost a day showing them around the town,
15:58possible places where my friend would be,
16:01knowing that my friend is not going to be there.
16:03I mean, the mafia, whichever part of the world you are,
16:06can be pretty terrifying, I imagine.
16:08I'm sure we are.
16:09Thank you, Clasham.
16:10APPLAUSE
16:12Very good.
16:14Now, then, let's get on with this countdown issue now.
16:18Laurie on 36, Gwen on 13.
16:20Laurie, your letters round.
16:22Thank you.
16:23Vowel, please, Rachel.
16:25Thank you, Laurie.
16:26I.
16:27And another.
16:28E.
16:30And a third.
16:31U.
16:33And a consonant.
16:35R.
16:36Consonant.
16:38G.
16:39Consonant.
16:41L.
16:44A vowel, please.
16:46E.
16:48Consonant.
16:50X.
16:52And one more consonant, please.
16:54And the last one, N.
16:56Stand by.
17:05CLOCK TICKS
17:28Yes, Dory?
17:30A seven, not written down.
17:32And Gwen?
17:34A six, I think.
17:36A six, let's try.
17:37Ringle.
17:38Laurie?
17:39Reeling.
17:40Reeling.
17:41And, yes, wringle.
17:43It's a dialect term simply meaning to ring or jingle.
17:46There you go.
17:47Very good.
17:49And Pasha, Susie, what have you got?
17:52We had uglier for six and leering for seven.
17:55Leering.
17:56Yes.
17:57All right.
17:5843 to 13.
18:00And Gwen, your letters round.
18:02A consonant, please, Rachel.
18:03Thank you, Gwen.
18:04M.
18:06And a second.
18:08T.
18:09And a vowel.
18:11O.
18:12And a second vowel.
18:14U.
18:15Another consonant.
18:17F.
18:19And another.
18:21M.
18:23And a vowel.
18:25A.
18:27And another vowel.
18:29E.
18:31And a final consonant, please.
18:34And a final S.
18:36Stand by.
19:02Yes, Gwen?
19:04A six.
19:06A six, Laurie?
19:07A six.
19:08Gwen?
19:09Famous.
19:10Famous.
19:11And...
19:12I'm famous as well.
19:13There we go.
19:14They're both famous.
19:15Pasha?
19:17There is a seven-letter word and it's sfumata.
19:22Sfumata.
19:23Yes.
19:24This is...
19:25Very hard to pronounce but you did it brilliantly.
19:27Sfumata.
19:28It is a technique in art, it comes from the Italian,
19:31meaning the technique of allowing tones and colours
19:33to shade gradually into one another,
19:35so you get a sort of hazy image.
19:37OK.
19:38Thank you.
19:39Sfumata.
19:40Very good.
19:41Thank you.
19:4249 to 19.
19:44And we're with numbers now.
19:45We're with Rachel.
19:46It's a numbers round for Laurie.
19:49One large and five small, please, Rachel.
19:51Thank you, Laurie.
19:52One from the top, five not from the top.
19:54And for this round,
19:55five not from the top.
19:56And for this round,
19:57the little ones are three, four, seven, nine and one,
20:03and the big one, 100.
20:05And your target, 761.
20:08761.
20:25MUSIC PLAYS
20:41Laurie.
20:42761.
20:43761.
20:44And Gwen.
20:45Um, 761 but not completely written down.
20:48Gwen, tell us how.
20:49100 plus nine times seven...
20:53Plus nine times seven.
20:55Sounds good to start with. 763.
20:57And then I...
20:58Oh, three minus one.
21:00There you go, well done, well remembered.
21:02761.
21:03And breathe.
21:04Well done.
21:05And Laurie, same way?
21:06Great minds.
21:07All right.
21:08APPLAUSE
21:09Well done.
21:1059 plays 29 as we turn to our second Tea Time teaser,
21:15which is Easter Egg and the clue.
21:18You're going to have to set them apart from the others.
21:21You're going to have to set them apart from the others.
21:25MUSIC PLAYS
21:34APPLAUSE
21:40Welcome back, welcome back.
21:42I left you with a clue.
21:43You're going to have to set them apart from the others.
21:47And the answer to that one is segregate.
21:50There we are.
21:5159 plays 29, Laurie on 59 and it's Gwen's letters round.
21:55Gwen.
21:57Consonant, please, Rachel.
21:58Thank you, Gwen.
21:59T.
22:01And another?
22:03Another T.
22:05And a third, please.
22:07G.
22:08And now a vowel.
22:10U.
22:12And another?
22:13E.
22:15And another?
22:17O.
22:20And a fourth, please.
22:22I.
22:24And a final... Oh, sorry, consonant.
22:26B.
22:29And a consonant, please.
22:32And the last one, S.
22:34Stand by.
22:36MUSIC PLAYS
22:49MUSIC CONTINUES
23:08Gwen.
23:09Seven.
23:10A seven, Laurie.
23:11Seven.
23:12Gwen.
23:13Butties.
23:14Butties and...?
23:15More butties.
23:16Any more butties?
23:18And the else of them butties?
23:20Yes, so we have eight-letter word and it's...
23:24Goutiest.
23:25Goutiest, yes.
23:26Not very pleasant, but if you have worse gout
23:29than your next-door neighbour, you are the goutiest.
23:32It's a horrible thing to have about it.
23:34Dreadful.
23:35Now then, 66-36, Laurie.
23:38Your letters.
23:40Vowel, please, Rachel.
23:41Thank you, Laurie.
23:42E.
23:44The vowel.
23:45I.
23:47Another.
23:49A.
23:50And a fourth.
23:52E.
23:53Consonant.
23:54R.
23:56Consonant.
23:57M.
23:59Consonant.
24:01P.
24:02Consonant.
24:04R.
24:07And a consonant, please.
24:08And the last one, S.
24:10Countdown.
24:12MUSIC PLAYS
24:18MUSIC CONTINUES
24:42Laurie.
24:43A seven.
24:44A seven, Gwen?
24:45Eight.
24:46Sorry.
24:47Amperes.
24:48Amperes.
24:49And, Gwen?
24:50Simpera.
24:51A simpera?
24:53Simperingly is in there, simperingly, but not simpera.
24:56I'm so sorry.
24:57Oh, that's bad luck.
24:58Yeah.
24:59That's merely because it hasn't been used enough.
25:01Yeah.
25:02What else have we got there? Pasha?
25:04We have a couple more sevens.
25:06Repairs and Marys, and one eight, which is Premieres.
25:11Premieres.
25:12Yes.
25:13All right.
25:14Thank you.
25:1673-36, and we are turning now to Susie.
25:20Susie and her origins of words.
25:23Now then, Susie.
25:25Well, I'm going to explain perhaps the difference between two words
25:29that are regularly confused when it comes to spelling,
25:32and for a very good reason,
25:34because it seems to be quite arbitrary, the difference between them.
25:38And that is stationary, as in the ink and paper,
25:41and being stationary, i.e. standing still.
25:44Particularly tricky for non-native speakers of English as well,
25:48that sort of difference.
25:50And to explain the difference,
25:51you have to go all the way back to the Romans, as we so often do,
25:54and the Latin stationarius, which meant belonging to a military station.
25:58And it was first applied to a soldier that was attached
26:01to a particular Roman encampment, wasn't a mercenary,
26:04didn't travel from place to place,
26:06but was permanently attached to that particular place.
26:09And it comes from statio, which in Latin simply meant standing still.
26:13And this idea of staying put was then applied a little bit later
26:16to a tradesperson, a tradesman, who had an established shop.
26:20In other words, they weren't an itinerant seller of goods
26:23that went from place to place, a tinkerer, if you like,
26:26selling their wares in search of business,
26:29but that they stayed, again, in one place.
26:31And when stationarius was adopted into English,
26:34it was given an ER, like many agent nouns are in English,
26:39and it was applied particularly to booksellers.
26:42And that's because, although many sellers of books were itinerant,
26:46there were also permanent bookshops at the universities
26:49because the universities had a great influence in medieval times.
26:53And the governing bodies, places like Oxford and Cambridge,
26:56would licence very trusted vendors to sell in that particular place.
27:04So, again, they stayed put.
27:06And over time, stationarius came to be applied not just to books,
27:10but for people who sold paper and ink and the wherewithal to write
27:14and, indeed, to read.
27:16And so those sellers of pen and paper,
27:19together with booksellers and bookbinders,
27:21became members of the company of stationers.
27:24So that explains the station a bit with the ER.
27:26And stationary itself is just a shortening of stationary ware.
27:30In other words, the goods that are sold by a stationer.
27:33But after stationary with an A,
27:35that simply looks back to that Latin root of standing still.
27:38And, of course, it helps differentiate from the other meaning as well.
27:41And Stasio standing still also, of course, gave a station,
27:44but they all look back to that idea of immobility and not going anywhere.
27:49Superb. Lovely.
27:5473-36. Laurie on 73.
27:57And it's Gwen's letters game. Gwen.
27:59A consonant, please, Rachel.
28:01Thank you, Gwen. N.
28:04And a second?
28:07R.
28:09And a third?
28:11N.
28:13And a fourth, please?
28:15D.
28:17And a vowel?
28:19I.
28:21Another? E.
28:23And a third?
28:25O.
28:27And a fourth?
28:29E.
28:31And a final consonant, please?
28:33And a final B.
28:35Stand by.
29:06Yes, Gwen?
29:08I'll risk an eight.
29:10Laurie?
29:12I'll dare a seven.
29:14And your seven, Laurie?
29:16Endiron. E-N-D-I-R-O-N.
29:18Endiron. Gwen?
29:20Overdine?
29:22I was looking at all sorts of words like that.
29:25It's actually an andiron that you'll find on the fireplace.
29:28And yet endiron isn't a variant of that, Laurie, I'm afraid.
29:31I love the idea of overdining,
29:33but you can't, unfortunately.
29:35Sorry, Gwen.
29:37But in the corner, Pasha and Susie, what have you got?
29:40Nine. A nine?
29:42A nine. What's going on, Pasha?
29:44And it's environd.
29:46Environd. That's brilliant. Surrounded or enclosed.
29:48Brilliant. Well done.
29:50APPLAUSE
29:52Fabulous.
29:56And now it's the final letters game for you, Laurie.
29:59Thank you, Nick. Vowel, please, right?
30:01Thank you, Laurie. O.
30:03Second one?
30:05A. And the third one?
30:07E. And a fourth?
30:10O.
30:12OK, and a consonant, please?
30:14N. Second one?
30:16D.
30:18Third one?
30:20L.
30:22A fourth one?
30:24L.
30:26And a fifth one?
30:28And the last one, S.
30:30Canta.
31:01Yes, Laurie? Seven.
31:03Seven. And Gwen?
31:05Only six. Six?
31:07Saloon. Saloon.
31:09And? Noodles.
31:11Noodles.
31:13Yes, Laurie knows his German. Very good.
31:15Noodles. Noodles.
31:17Any more noodles?
31:19Yes, we had lots of noodles.
31:21No, we're looking for salooned, in fact,
31:23but not in the dictionary, so we'll stick with seven.
31:26Stick with the noodles. All right, well done.
31:2836, final numbers game. Gwen?
31:32One large and five small, please, Rachel.
31:34Thank you, Gwen.
31:36One big, five little to finish the day off.
31:38And these numbers are...
31:403, 8, 9, 6, 10 and 50.
31:46And the target, 481.
31:49481.
31:58CLOCK TICKS
32:20Yes, Gwen?
32:22No, I've lost it, sorry.
32:24How about Laurie?
32:26481. Let's try.
32:28I'll have a go. 50 x 10 is 500.
32:3050 x 10, 500.
32:326 over 3 is 2.
32:34You have got it, yep.
32:369 plus 8 plus 2 is 19 and take it off.
32:38Lovely. 481, well done.
32:40APPLAUSE
32:42Briskly done there, Laurie.
32:44Well done. So we've reached the final round.
32:47It's fingers on buzzers there.
32:49Gwen and Laurie, let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:53COUNTDOWN MUSIC PLAYS
32:55CLOCK TICKS
32:57CLOCK TICKS
33:22Well, we're foxed up here, but who in the audience do I see a hand?
33:26You, sir.
33:27Petulance. Petulance.
33:29Let's see whether you're right.
33:31Petulance, well done.
33:33APPLAUSE
33:36Well done indeed.
33:38So there we are.
33:40We finished today with Laurie on 90 and Gwen on 36.
33:43A good score, Laurie, not quite as good as yesterday,
33:46but nonetheless, that's two wins you've got.
33:48And so we say farewell to Gwen,
33:51back to Tunbridge, not disappointed or angry of Tunbridge, I hope.
33:55No.
33:56Thanks for coming.
33:57And you take this goody bag back to Tunbridge.
33:59Travel safely. Well done.
34:01We shall see you tomorrow.
34:03Great performance. We will not be seeing Pasha.
34:06Pasha, it's been a real pleasure having you here,
34:08a joy having you here.
34:10I hope your tour is a great success.
34:12And when it's finished, you come back and tell us about it, please.
34:15I would love to. Thank you.
34:17Excellent stuff. See you tomorrow, Susie?
34:19See you tomorrow.
34:20And Rachel too, of course. See you tomorrow.
34:22See you tomorrow.
34:24You'll be sure of it. A very good afternoon.
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