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00:27APPLAUSE
00:31Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown studio.
00:34Now, who would argue that Freddie Mercury
00:37wasn't surely one of the greatest front men in the history of rock music?
00:43Not many, I would suggest,
00:45but today a biopic is launched called Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:49Now, Freddie is played by Rami Malek,
00:52whom some of you may well recognise
00:54as being in the film Night at the Museum
00:57and also in the American TV show which is called Mr Robot.
01:01I've never actually seen that. Do you know Mr Robot?
01:04I've heard of it, not seen it.
01:06No, neither have I. But there we are.
01:08But I'm not altogether sure that I like biopics,
01:11although I thought Jamie Foxx, who played Ray Charles in Ray, was terrific.
01:15But generally speaking, I feel somehow it's all rather second-hand
01:19if somebody else is playing, you know, somebody incredibly famous.
01:22But let's see how Mr Malek gets on.
01:24Who's your favourite front man?
01:26Well, I'm looking forward to this. I've been looking forward to it since the summer.
01:29Have you seen the trailer? No.
01:30Oh, it's incredible. It's got Bohemian Rhapsody
01:32and I think We Will Rock You as a kind of medley intertwined with each other.
01:36It looks great.
01:37And I think Sacha Baron Cohen was originally going to be Freddie Mercury,
01:40but he pulled out.
01:42I'd be interested to see what people like Brian May make of it.
01:44Indeed. I'm looking forward to it, that's for sure.
01:46Excellent stuff. All right. I'll give it a shot. I'll give it a shot.
01:49Now, I'll tell you who's going to get a shot.
01:51This is Martin May. Welcome back, Martin.
01:54Look at you. Another great win. Five wins in a row. Fantastic.
01:58And you've played like a real champ.
02:00Now, you're joined by Maria Michaels,
02:02a mum from Liverpool who loves watching Countdown,
02:05with her two-year-old son, Arthur. Is that right?
02:08Yes, Arthur loves Countdown.
02:10And he also shares a birthday with Susie as well.
02:13Well done.
02:14He's a big fan of the show.
02:15And he's watching, I'm sure, watching Mum.
02:18Isn't it great that young children on their mum's knee
02:21can learn the alphabet and learn to count and so forth?
02:24He has learned the alphabet through Countdown.
02:26He starts copying the letters off Rachel.
02:29Oh, that's brilliant. Well, good. Give him a little wave there, Maria.
02:32Hello, Arthur.
02:34Let's have a big round of applause for Martin, Maria and little Arthur too.
02:38Why not?
02:43And over the corner, Susie's there.
02:45And for the last time, until we can drag her back once again,
02:48the well-loved, best-loved, I would say, TV presenter and broadcaster,
02:52the wonderful Gloria Hunterford. Welcome.
02:54Thank you very much. Thank you.
02:56I have to say, it's been an absolute joy watching Martin the last few days.
03:00And Maria I met outside the studio and I was thinking,
03:03gosh, imagine coming on a day like today when Martin's on a row.
03:06But it's like the Martin and the Maria show, really, today.
03:10Indeed. Let's see how they get on today.
03:12Good luck to Maria and to you, Martin, too.
03:14All right. Martin, off we go.
03:16Afternoon, Rachel. Afternoon, Martin.
03:18Can I start with a vowel, please? Start today with O.
03:21And another.
03:23E.
03:24And a consonant.
03:26D.
03:27And another.
03:29T.
03:30And another.
03:32P.
03:33And a vowel.
03:35A.
03:37And a consonant.
03:39Q.
03:41And a vowel.
03:44I.
03:46And a final vowel, please.
03:49And a final U.
03:51And here's the Countdown Clock.
04:13CLOCK TICKS
04:23Well, Martin?
04:24A seven.
04:25A seven, Maria?
04:26A seven as well.
04:28Martin?
04:29A coited.
04:30No, then, Maria?
04:31Opiated.
04:33Certainly be opiated.
04:35And if you are thrown or propelled like a coit, you can be coited as well.
04:40Yeah, obviously. Fine.
04:42Maria, what else can we be?
04:44I was thinking of opaque, but you can have opaque-ed, apparently.
04:48Yeah. For a seven.
04:50Made opaque, blacked out in some way.
04:52Yeah, that's not a good seven.
04:54Anything else? That was our best.
04:55It'll do. It'll do.
04:56Seven apiece and Maria.
04:58Good start there, Maria. Letters again.
05:00Hi, Rachel. Hi, Maria.
05:02Can I have a consonant, please?
05:04You can, indeed.
05:05L.
05:06And a vowel.
05:08E.
05:09And another consonant.
05:11G.
05:12And another vowel.
05:15I.
05:17And a consonant.
05:19P.
05:21And another consonant.
05:23N.
05:25And another vowel.
05:28O.
05:30And another consonant.
05:33C.
05:35And a final consonant, please.
05:37And a final P.
05:38Stand by.
05:41CLOCK TICKS
05:44CLOCK TICKS
06:10Maria.
06:13I'll stay with a six.
06:15Thank you, Martin.
06:16Seven.
06:17And a seven. Maria.
06:18Coping.
06:20Yes, Martin.
06:21And eloping.
06:22Eloping. Now then.
06:24If you don't get married soon, I'm going to have to elope with you.
06:27Somebody's going to have to elope with you.
06:29Oh, hold on. I didn't know this was on offer.
06:32Gloria, where do you want to go?
06:35Now then, what else have we got?
06:39I could get to an eight with the sound of a horse's hooves
06:42and clopping, clopping along the road.
06:44Clip-clop.
06:46APPLAUSE
06:49Well done.
06:51So, 14 plays seven.
06:53And, Martin, your numbers game.
06:55Rachel, can I get two from the top and any other four, please?
06:58Of course you can. Thank you, Martin. Two large, four little.
07:01And to kick us off, the small ones are eight, two, seven and four,
07:07and the large two, 150.
07:10And this target, 941.
07:12941.
07:37Yes, Martin?
07:46936, but not written down.
07:48936. Maria?
07:50943.
07:52Mm-hm. Off we go, Maria.
07:54Eight plus two equals ten.
07:56Yep.
07:57Times 100.
07:581,000.
07:59And then minus 50.
08:01950.
08:02Minus the seven.
08:03943. Two away. Lovely.
08:05Indeed. Well done.
08:07Where's that two got to, Rachel?
08:09I found one way.
08:11If you say 100 plus 50 plus eight is 158.
08:17Four plus two is six.
08:19Times them together for 948,
08:22and you have a seven left over for 941.
08:24Oh, wonderful.
08:25APPLAUSE
08:27Well done.
08:29And well done, Maria.
08:30You've pulled a level with Martin.
08:32We're down to 14 points apiece
08:34as we turn to our first Tea Time teaser,
08:37which is Pin Melt Me.
08:39And the clue...
08:41Put a plan into effect using a specific tool.
08:44Put a plan into effect using a specific tool.
08:58APPLAUSE
09:03Welcome back.
09:04I left you with the clue, put a plan into effect using a specific tool.
09:08And the answer to that is implement or implement.
09:12There we go.
09:1314 apiece, and, Maria, it's your letters game.
09:17Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
09:20Thank you, Maria. F.
09:22And a vowel.
09:24E.
09:25And another consonant.
09:27M.
09:29And another vowel.
09:31O.
09:33And another consonant.
09:35L.
09:37And another vowel.
09:39A.
09:41And another consonant.
09:43T.
09:45Another consonant.
09:47X.
09:48And a final vowel, please.
09:50And a final I.
09:52And it's Countdown.
10:01CLOCK TICKS
10:24Maria.
10:25Five.
10:26Martin.
10:27Seven.
10:28Maria.
10:29Motel.
10:30Thank you, Martin.
10:31Affoliate.
10:33Yes, very, very good.
10:35To decorate with a leaf-like motif.
10:37We're definitely copying each other, definitely.
10:40Well done. And the answer is...?
10:42No, Gloria got very excited, she thought we could have exfoliate,
10:45but sadly you need two Es.
10:46That would have been great.
10:47That was my peak moment.
10:49Thank you for that.
10:5021 plays 14.
10:52Martin's sprung a bit of a lead there.
10:54Martin, your letters game.
10:56Can I start with a consonant, please?
10:58Thank you, Martin.
10:59S.
11:00And another.
11:02R.
11:03And a third.
11:05N.
11:06And a vowel.
11:08E.
11:09And another vowel.
11:10O.
11:11And a consonant.
11:13L.
11:15And a vowel.
11:17E.
11:19And a consonant.
11:21M.
11:22And a final consonant, please.
11:24And a final S.
11:26Standby.
11:29MUSIC PLAYS
11:57Martin.
11:58Martin.
11:59I'll stick with a seven.
12:01Maria.
12:02I'll risk a made-up eight.
12:04Right!
12:06Erm...
12:07Hold on, whoops, we're going to go to Martin,
12:09who's only struggling on seven there. Yes, Martin?
12:11Morsels.
12:12Now, then, what is this risk you're taking?
12:15Normless.
12:16As in...
12:18lacking the norm.
12:20Brilliant.
12:22No!
12:23APPLAUSE
12:29Fantastic.
12:30Was that a real gamble, or did you have an inkling?
12:33Yes, I knew.
12:35LAUGHTER
12:37Good for you.
12:38Now, what else?
12:39Remorse, as well, for seven.
12:41Remorse.
12:42Well done.
12:43Anything else, Susie?
12:44Can't beat that.
12:45That's brilliant. One point ahead.
12:47Look at you, you're rattling Martin's cage over there.
12:50Never been rattled before.
12:5222 to 21.
12:54And it's your numbers game now.
12:56Maria.
12:57Please can I have one large and the rest small?
13:00You can indeed. Thank you, Maria.
13:02One large one, five little ones, and this time around,
13:05the selection is six, five, ten, three, seven and 75.
13:12And the target, 336.
13:15336.
13:27MUSIC PLAYS
13:47Well, Maria?
13:48335.
13:49One away, Martin.
13:51336.
13:52Martin, 336?
13:5475 minus seven is 68.
13:5675, yep, minus seven, 68.
13:58Times five is 340.
14:00It is indeed.
14:01Ten minus six is four, and take it away.
14:03Well done. Perfect.
14:05APPLAUSE
14:08Well done, Mr May.
14:10Back in the lead, 31 to 22 as we link to Gloria.
14:13Gloria, what have you got for us today?
14:15It's all about drink.
14:17Oh!
14:18Simple as that.
14:19Because, to set this story up,
14:21I worked behind the scenes in television when I was 19,
14:25and my grandchildren can't believe that in those days
14:28there was no recording machine.
14:30There was nothing to record a programme like this.
14:33And so as a production assistant,
14:35you're responsible for the signature music,
14:37the captions, which were bits of grey cardboard on a stand,
14:41and you had a caption puller,
14:43and you had to have all the bits and pieces.
14:45So we did a news at sort of one o'clock.
14:47So you get all your stuff live, and then it goes out live,
14:50and then you run upstairs and you get the next bit
14:52for the sport at three o'clock.
14:54And in the meantime, my director, he said to me,
14:57why don't you come to Dirty Dick's, the pub?
14:59So we went across, we were all very jolly.
15:01So he said, what would you like to drink?
15:03And I went, I didn't like to say a sherry.
15:05So I said, I'm not so sure.
15:06So he said, have you had a Tea Maria?
15:08And I went, no.
15:09So anyway, of course, out it came with a bit of cream on the top,
15:12tasted very nice, very small drink.
15:14So I had another and another and another.
15:16We had time to kill until three o'clock.
15:18So by the time we got back to the studio,
15:20and I was responsible for the timing of the programme live,
15:23and I couldn't even see the stopwatch, never mind working.
15:26And anyway, the director, he had to call all the shots,
15:30and he had to do the timing.
15:32And at the end of it all, he said, let that be a lesson to you.
15:35I never, ever, ever want to see you drink before a live programme again.
15:38And I'm going, I don't know, but you were the one
15:40who took me for the drink and got me drunk.
15:42Anyway, it taught me a very good lesson,
15:44and I've always done live shows all my life,
15:47and I never, ever, ever would have a drink before a show.
15:51But then the other little tailpiece to that,
15:53in my commercial days within early television,
15:56I was doing a drink, an ad for Sherry.
15:59It was Sherry this time.
16:01And I swear to goodness, there was 35 takes.
16:04And by the time I had 35 glasses of Sherry,
16:07I was gone on that occasion as well,
16:09so I've hardly drunk since.
16:11But there you go, you see?
16:13But isn't it hard to imagine that there was nothing
16:16to record a programme on?
16:18Amazing.
16:19Scary times.
16:20Yes.
16:21Talking about drinks, remember you probably met him,
16:23I never did, Reggie Bozenkent, who used to read the News 10.
16:26Oh, yes, of course.
16:27He did drink quite a lot, and they were all very worried.
16:29Anyway, he came back into the studio with three minutes to go
16:32before airtime with a bottle of whiskey,
16:34which he plonked on the desk beside him.
16:36Oh, my God, he's completely gone!
16:39And they said, what are we going to do?
16:41Well, go and get the bottle, somebody said, so they got it.
16:44And the gongs went, and they thought,
16:46oh, this is going to be terrible.
16:48He was perfect.
16:49And he had tea in the bottle.
16:51It was only tea, he was having them on.
16:53Oh, wasn't that funny?
16:55Good old Reggie Bozenkent.
16:56He certainly made the news interesting, I'll say that.
16:58Yeah, they were a good crowd that lot, actually,
17:00way back in the 70s.
17:02And now, Martin, it's your letters game.
17:04Start with a vowel, please, Rachel.
17:06Thank you, Martin. A.
17:08And another.
17:09U.
17:10And another.
17:12O.
17:13And a consonant, please.
17:15N.
17:16And another.
17:18R.
17:19And a third.
17:21D.
17:22And a vowel.
17:24I.
17:26And a consonant.
17:28D.
17:30And a final consonant, please.
17:33And a final N.
17:35Stand by.
17:45CLOCK TICKS
18:06Yes, Martin?
18:07A seven.
18:08A seven. And Maria?
18:10A seven.
18:11Martin?
18:12And iron.
18:13Yes.
18:14And Maria?
18:15Android.
18:16Two good players here.
18:18I only had Android. That's all I had.
18:20That's it. Susie, anything else?
18:22There is a strange eight, or slightly strange eight.
18:24It's a synonym for defrock when you talk about a priest,
18:27and it's unordained.
18:29You can unordain somebody.
18:31Yes.
18:32OK.
18:3338-29.
18:36Maria, your letters game.
18:38I'll have a consonant, please, Rachel.
18:40Thank you, Maria.
18:41S.
18:43And another consonant.
18:45T.
18:47And a vowel.
18:49A.
18:50And another vowel.
18:52O.
18:53And another consonant.
18:55T.
18:57And another.
18:59R.
19:01And another vowel, please.
19:04E.
19:06And a consonant.
19:08S.
19:10And a final vowel.
19:11The final A.
19:13Stand by.
19:42Maria?
19:44I'll risk a seven.
19:46Thank you, Martin.
19:48Eight, I think.
19:49And an eight. OK. Maria?
19:51Stages.
19:53Yes. And...?
19:55Storages.
19:56So, Susie?
19:58I have to disallow storages with the S, I'm afraid,
20:01cos it's definitely listed as a mass noun,
20:03doesn't really give any situation in which you would add the S.
20:06I'm sorry, Martin.
20:07And stages?
20:08Stages, absolutely fine. It's an old term for an actor.
20:10An old stager?
20:12Yes.
20:13An old stager.
20:14Anything else?
20:15Nothing but storage.
20:16Storage.
20:17That's all we have.
20:18OK, so Martin on 38, Maria up to 36.
20:21And now, Martin, it's your numbers game. Good luck.
20:24I'm going to dig out the six more, please.
20:27I thought you might say that, six more.
20:29We'll try and put some daylight between you, Maria.
20:31See if it works.
20:32These little ones are six, one, three, four, two and six.
20:39All quite small.
20:40And the target, 942.
20:43942.
21:10Martin?
21:12936.
21:14936, Maria?
21:16I got to 36 and gave up.
21:19Now, Martin.
21:21Right, so four times three is 12.
21:24Four threes are 12.
21:25Plus one is 13.
21:26Yep.
21:27Times two?
21:2826.
21:29Times six?
21:30Times six.
21:31Times six, times six, and you get 936.
21:33Six away, well done.
21:35How good was that?
21:36That was actually as perfect as you can get for this one.
21:38Six away was the best.
21:39Well done, well done, Martin.
21:40Great.
21:41All right, so 43 to 36, Martin in the lead,
21:44but not by that much as we turn to our second tea time teaser,
21:48which is Fine Edict and the clue.
21:50His diet was OK, but it was badly lacking in vitamin B.
21:55His diet was OK, but it was badly lacking in vitamin B.
21:59His diet was OK, but it was badly lacking in vitamin B.
22:19Welcome back, welcome back.
22:21Left with the clue, his diet was OK, but it was badly lacking in vitamin B.
22:25And the answer to that is deficient.
22:29Deficient.
22:31So, 43 plays 36, Martin on 43, and it's Maria we turn to.
22:36Yes, Maria, let us go.
22:39Can I have a consonant, please, Rachel?
22:41Thank you, Maria.
22:42T.
22:44And a vowel?
22:46I.
22:47And another consonant?
22:49V.
22:51And another?
22:53H.
22:54And another?
22:56L.
22:57And a vowel?
22:59O.
23:00And another vowel?
23:03U.
23:05And another?
23:08I.
23:10And a consonant?
23:12And lastly?
23:13S.
23:14Countdown.
23:25MUSIC
23:46Yes, Maria?
23:48Didn't get anything on that time.
23:50What about Martin?
23:51A seven.
23:52A seven, OK. Off you go.
23:54Laotish.
23:56Yeah.
23:57Hey.
23:58Laotish.
23:59It's the same.
24:00Yes?
24:01Yeah, it's actually the same for us.
24:02Nothing more?
24:03No, afraid not.
24:04Laotish, how dare you, Martin.
24:06All right, so 50 to 36, and it's Martin's letters game now.
24:10Martin?
24:11Rachel, can I get a consonant, please?
24:13Thank you, Martin.
24:14W.
24:15And another?
24:17S.
24:18And a vowel?
24:20A.
24:21And another?
24:23U.
24:24And a third?
24:26I.
24:27And a consonant?
24:29R.
24:30And another?
24:32J.
24:35And another?
24:38H.
24:41And a final consonant, please?
24:43And a final T.
24:45Stand by.
24:47MUSIC
24:52MUSIC
25:17Martin, I'll stick with a six.
25:20Maria?
25:21Five.
25:22And your five is?
25:23Waste.
25:25Martin, a jurist.
25:28Um, yes.
25:30Expert in or writer on law.
25:32Very good.
25:33Yeah.
25:34And we had wraths.
25:36Like the wrath of that individual, the plural.
25:39Wraths.
25:40Well done.
25:41Susie, anything else?
25:42Yes.
25:43Yeah, with the I in the middle.
25:45Wraiths, possibly a ghost or ghost-like image of someone,
25:48especially one seen shortly before or after their death.
25:51Very good.
25:52Yeah.
25:53A wraith-like presence.
25:5556-36.
25:57Susie, what have you for us today in your origins of words slot?
26:02I have an email from Tony Harding.
26:04It's an interesting one, this.
26:06He says, I'm puzzled by the following inconsistency.
26:08If parapluie protects you from the rain, sunbrella in French,
26:12a parasol protects you from the sun
26:14and a parachute protects you from falling,
26:17what about paramedic?
26:19So, as I say, that's from Tony Harding.
26:22And he's right that the prefix para usually means protection from.
26:27And it was first used in English in loans via French of words
26:31that ultimately actually came from Italy
26:33because it comes from the Italian command para,
26:36meaning get ready or prepare.
26:38So it was an instruction, really.
26:40And it started to be used in front of nouns as a prefix.
26:44It was applied to lots of different things.
26:46A parasol, as Tony says, means to defend or shelter from the sun.
26:50A paravent or paravent was a windscreen.
26:54A parapetto, straight from Italian, meant a breast guard.
26:58So something that would actually, on a suit of armour,
27:01would protect your heart.
27:03And then it was applied to the defence
27:05given to the heart of the castle or a fortification.
27:07That parapetto, of course, became parapet for us.
27:10But he asked about paramedic and what this has to do with protection.
27:15And, of course, our wonderful paramedics do protect us
27:17from harm and injury, etc.
27:20And sometimes they save us from death.
27:22But that's not where they get their para from.
27:24It's simply an extension of parachute
27:27because the original paramedics in the US
27:29were trained to be dropped by parachute to give medical aid.
27:33Well, well. Very good.
27:35APPLAUSE
27:37I think you phrased that very well.
27:40Oh, thank you.
27:42Thank you. Excellent.
27:4456-36, Maria.
27:47Off we go. Letters game.
27:50I'll have a vowel, please, Rachel.
27:52Thank you, Maria. E
27:54And a consonant.
27:56L
27:58And another.
28:00S
28:02And another.
28:04F
28:06And a vowel.
28:08A
28:10And a consonant.
28:12D
28:14And another.
28:18K
28:20And a vowel.
28:22U
28:24And a final vowel, please.
28:26And a final A.
28:28Stand by.
28:42CLOCK TICKS
29:00Maria. Six.
29:02A six, Martin. Yeah, I'll stick with a six as well.
29:05Maria. Flaked.
29:07Martin. Yeah, flaked as well.
29:10Can we match or beat six?
29:12Yes. Three in a row. Flakes.
29:14Flakes and slaked, as in I slaked my thirst with some water.
29:19But sixes, yes. I was wondering what you were thinking of, Martin.
29:22I was thinking of flasked. I was going to put something in a flask.
29:25Flasked. Oh, that's a good one.
29:27And it's quite possibly there as well.
29:29It's not, actually.
29:31I didn't even see that one.
29:33Moving on, moving on.
29:35Martin, it's your letters game final one of the day.
29:39OK, can you start with a vowel, please?
29:41Thank you, Martin. I.
29:43And another.
29:45U.
29:47And a third.
29:49O.
29:51And a consonant.
29:53R.
29:55And another. R.
29:57And a third.
29:59N.
30:01And a vowel.
30:03E.
30:05And a consonant.
30:07T.
30:09And a final vowel, please.
30:13And a final U.
30:15Stand by.
30:37MUSIC PLAYS
30:48Martin? A seven.
30:50A seven, Maria? Six.
30:52Your six is? Torah.
30:54Thank you, Martin. A routine.
30:56A routine.
30:58And in the corner?
31:00Very little, I'm afraid.
31:02Is it strange, actually, the mix of letters have been very difficult
31:05and not easy.
31:07Anything there, Susie?
31:09You can put an R at the end of routine and have a routiner,
31:12somebody whose behaviour is according to a routine,
31:16or also a device for testing circuits and connections in a computer.
31:20Thanks for that.
31:24So, 69-42.
31:27Maria, numbers game, final one.
31:29Please can I have one from the top and the rest small, Rachel?
31:33Can it do, thank you, Maria. One large, five little.
31:36And the final numbers of the day are seven, one, three,
31:41six, four and 75.
31:45And the final target, 608.
31:48608.
31:50MUSIC PLAYS
32:03MUSIC STOPS
32:19Maria?
32:21607.
32:23One away, Martin.
32:25608.
32:27608. Now, Martin.
32:29Right.
32:31Times three is 12.
32:33Four threes are 12.
32:35Plus 75.
32:36Plus 75, 87.
32:38Times seven should be 609.
32:40It is indeed.
32:42Take away the one. Yep, that'll do it. 608.
32:45Well done.
32:49So, 79-42, we go into the final round.
32:52Fingers on buzzers.
32:54Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:58BELL RINGS
33:00Excuse me, Martin?
33:02Sorry, inspected.
33:04Good heavens. Let's have a look.
33:08There it is. Scores you.
33:13Fastest yet. Fastest yet.
33:1589-42.
33:17Maria, you held him back, that's what I'm going to tell you.
33:20Kept him on his toes for a while. You certainly did.
33:22In fact, you took the lead at one stage.
33:24He's a pretty powerful player.
33:26And in the end, he takes the day.
33:28But thank you so much for coming.
33:30Back to Liverpool, back to little Arthur.
33:33He'll be very proud of you.
33:35You take this goody bag and give him our best wishes
33:38and tell him to keep watching,
33:40and we'll see him here in a few years' time.
33:43I hope so. Well done. Thank you.
33:45Well, Martin, what's going on here? 89?
33:48I'll give full credit to Maria.
33:50She really made that hard for me.
33:52She made you work for it, didn't she?
33:54I wouldn't expect anything less from a shorty girl, would you?
33:57Indeed. Listen, you've got six wins.
33:59Well done, well done. We'll see you tomorrow.
34:01Cracking performance. Well done, well done.
34:03Oh, what are we going to do?
34:05Oh! I'll tell you what,
34:07I'll pay you to allow me to come and just sit around, eh?
34:10How about that? I'm very cheap.
34:12I always have the most marvellous times,
34:14so thank you very much indeed for the last week.
34:16It's been great. You come back and see us soon again.
34:18I sure will. Suzie, we'll see you tomorrow.
34:20We'll see you tomorrow.
34:22Paul Zenon will be here tomorrow.
34:24Yeah. So watch out.
34:26Tricks he'll be pulling. See you tomorrow.
34:28See you then. Join us then, same time, same place.
34:30You'll be sure of it. A very good afternoon.
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