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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Good afternoon and welcome to the Countdown Studio.
00:34Now, regular viewers will know that littering and litter louts,
00:38I'm not just peeved by activities, such a disgrace, I hate it.
00:43But how about this, Rachel, for an example of littering?
00:47See what you think.
00:48There's a chap in Manchester City Centre, he was eating a pork pie out in the open.
00:52Why not? He can if he wants to.
00:54And he let fall a couple of crumbs that hit the pavement,
00:58but there was an eagle-eyed enforcement officer there who spotted him and said,
01:03you have dropped litter, I fine you £50.
01:07And the chap said, oh, come on, I only dropped a few little crumbs.
01:11He said, over there, there's pigeons being fed,
01:16and if you say that my few crumbs could attract rats and pests,
01:20what about all those people feeding the pigeons?
01:22He said, I don't care about all that.
01:23Here's your £50 ticket.
01:26Now, I don't like litter louts, but I don't like zealots.
01:30I think they're terribly different.
01:31This guy was clearly a zealot.
01:33And I side with my pork pie-eating friend.
01:37It's ridiculous.
01:38There's got to be a difference between scratching your ear and tearing it to shreds.
01:42Would you agree with me?
01:43I would 100% agree, yeah.
01:45I think it's kind of the death of common sense, if that's the whole story.
01:48Exactly.
01:48Can't understand that for the slightest.
01:49Like you say, the birds will be there within a few seconds.
01:51I think the government's actually jacked up the fine for littering now, to £400, which is good.
01:56I'm desperate to catch a litterer, a serious litterer.
01:59I want to catch one.
02:00I think they have celebrity bins now.
02:02They have bins named after people, and with their voice telling them to put litter in.
02:05So maybe one day you could have your own NICU a bin.
02:08Oh, I pray for that, Dave.
02:09Who's with us?
02:11Bob Luntzback, retired missionary from Rotherham.
02:14Last Friday we saw a third win.
02:18Good stuff.
02:19And you're joined by Jonathan Greener, a primary school teacher from Sunderland, and a big football fan.
02:26Things not going too well at the moment.
02:28No, they've not been great recently, but we've got to step on by.
02:31Where are you now as a team?
02:33League One, sadly.
02:34Well, Sunderland's just a great football city, and it's such a fight to get back into the top league again.
02:39Yeah, it's going to be a struggle.
02:40The city revolves around it as well, so...
02:42Yeah.
02:43Well, cheer up.
02:44You're in the Carrotland studio.
02:45Have a great day.
02:46Have a great day.
02:47Both of you.
02:48Big round of applause for Bob and Jonathan.
02:54And Susan's over in the corner.
02:55Of course she is with her friend.
02:57It's the fantastic lyrical genius and favourite of ours.
03:01Sorry to embarrass you with all this, Tim.
03:03It's Tim Rice.
03:04Big round of applause for Tim.
03:05Tim's a very modest man and doesn't like all these superlatives, but it's true.
03:14I am a Sunderland supporter.
03:15I've supported Sunderland since 1954.
03:19We will return.
03:20Well done.
03:20It's a temporary blip.
03:21You should write a musical about it.
03:23There we are.
03:24Yes.
03:25Sunderland, yes, right.
03:26I'll work on it.
03:27There's a song in there somewhere.
03:28All right.
03:29Now, Bob, let's have a letters game, shall we?
03:31Good afternoon, Rachel.
03:32Afternoon, Bob.
03:33May I have a consonant, please?
03:34You may, thank you.
03:35Start the week with T.
03:37And a second.
03:39T.
03:40And a third.
03:42D.
03:43A vowel, please.
03:45U.
03:46And another.
03:48E.
03:49And a third.
03:50I.
03:52Consonant.
03:53R.
03:55Consonant.
03:57P.
03:59And a vowel, please.
04:01And the last one.
04:03Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:05Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:06Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:07Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:08Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:09Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:10Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:11Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:12Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:13Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:14Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:15Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:16Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:17Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:18Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:19Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:20Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:21Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:22Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:23Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:24Oh, and here's the countdown clock.
04:25Well, Bob?
04:36Seven.
04:37Jonathan?
04:38Seven.
04:39Bob?
04:40Grouted.
04:41Oh, yes.
04:42Jonathan?
04:43Grouped.
04:44And grouped.
04:45Yes, absolutely fine.
04:46And over there in the corner, Susie and Tim?
04:49I don't think we can beat seven.
04:51Susie's come up with one of two good ones.
04:53It's Poggia, just after she was looking at me, I think.
04:57Not at all, nor Goutia wasn't looking at you either.
05:00Oh, good.
05:00Or Paltia.
05:01Paltia.
05:02Yes, pirogue, quite a few sevens there, Nick.
05:06The pirogue is the dugout.
05:07The dugout, tree trunk, uses a canoe.
05:10Yes.
05:11Seven points apiece.
05:12Jonathan, your letters go.
05:15Constant, please.
05:16Thank you, Jonathan.
05:18N.
05:19A vowel.
05:21A.
05:22A vowel.
05:23O.
05:25Constant, please.
05:28D.
05:29Constant.
05:31M.
05:32Constant.
05:34B.
05:35Vowel, please.
05:37E.
05:38Vowel, please.
05:40I.
05:41And finally, constant.
05:43And finally.
05:44P.
05:45Stand by.
06:18Jonathan. Just a six. Bob? Seven. You're six, Jonathan. Monde. Bob? Domaine, with an E. Yes, Domaine, the vineyard or country house in France. Very good. And in the corner, Kim and Susie? Well, we have an eight. Dopamine. Oh, yeah. It's like a chemical messenger, really, to the brain, so it stimulates your mood. So chemical substance in the body. Dopamine. Dopamine.
06:47Hmm. Fourteen plays seven. Bob on fourteen, and it's your numbers game, Bob. One large and five small, please, Rachel. Thank you, Bob. One from the top and five little to kick off the week.
06:58And for the first time today, they are four, nine, three, two, one, and 25. And the target, 188.
07:10One, eight, eight.
07:40One, eight, eight. And Jonathan? Yeah, one, eight, eight. So, Bob? Nine times two. Nine times two is 18. Plus 25. Plus 25, 43. Plus three, plus one. Plus three, plus one, 47.
08:00And times four. And times four. And times four, which you haven't used. Well, do. Jonathan?
08:04Um, slightly different. I had four multiplied by two. Four by two for eight. Times by the 25.
08:11200. Minus nine, minus three. Minus nine, minus three. Yeah.
08:15Yeah. Well done.
08:20So, nothing in it. 24 points to 17. Jonathan on 17s. We turn to our first tea time teaser, which is need a lime.
08:28And the clue. You don't need a lime to make this. Some coconut and jam will help.
08:32You don't need a lime to make this. Some coconut and jam will help.
08:36Welcome back. I left with the clue. You don't need a lime to make this. Some coconut and jam will help.
08:57We're talking about the Madeleine. Madeleine is the answer. So, 24 to 17. Bob in the lead. Jonathan, your chance to catch up now. Letters game.
09:10Vowel, please. Thank you, Jonathan. U. And a consonant.
09:16R. And a consonant.
09:20F. A consonant, please.
09:22R. H.
09:24H. Vowel.
09:27O. Vowel, please.
09:29E.
09:31Consonant.
09:32S.
09:34Consonant.
09:36P.
09:38And another consonant, please.
09:40And the last one. T.
09:42Stand by.
09:43And another one.
09:50And another consonant, please.
09:52And the last one.
10:07I don't know.
10:08I don't know.
10:10I don't know.
10:11Yes, Jonathan?
10:15Seven.
10:16Bob?
10:16Seven.
10:17And your seven?
10:19Posture.
10:20Bob?
10:21Troops.
10:22Troops.
10:23With the E, dancing troops.
10:24Yes, absolutely fine.
10:26And over there in the corner, Susie and Tim?
10:28Well, we can't top it.
10:30Hotspur, as in Tottenham.
10:33Yes.
10:34As in a rash person.
10:35As in Shakespeare.
10:36Yes.
10:36Yes.
10:37Yeah, that's a seven.
10:38And also fourths.
10:4131 plays 24.
10:43Bob, you're off again.
10:46Letters again.
10:47A consonant, please, Rachel.
10:48Thank you, Bob.
10:49R.
10:50Second.
10:52G.
10:53And a third.
10:55V.
10:56And a vowel.
10:58U.
10:59And another.
11:01O.
11:02And a third.
11:04E.
11:05A consonant.
11:08R.
11:09A consonant.
11:13S.
11:15And a consonant, please.
11:17And the last one, K.
11:19Countdown.
11:19So第5話.
11:32Let's do it.
11:32Let's do it.
11:32And we'll be back to you.
11:34Let's do it.
11:35It'szieyeah.
11:36I'm going to be back to you.
11:37And I'll be back to you.
11:37And I'll be back to you.
11:40And June, again, Almighty is through the screen.
11:41And I'll be back to you next time.
11:42It'sней Post- untuk merrieradtroneenee.
11:43The way out of the season.
11:44To residents won't come to you.
11:45Here we'll be back to you.
11:47No, it's not somethingèµ·ufen.
11:47Well, Bob?
11:51Seven.
11:52And Jonathan?
11:53Just a six.
11:54Your six is?
11:55Grouse.
11:56Grouse and, Bob?
11:58Grover's.
12:00Oh, that was something that Tim actually asked me about to see if it was in,
12:04and it's not, unfortunately, not there as a derivative of Grove.
12:08Sorry about that, Bob.
12:09What can we have?
12:10Tim?
12:10Well, we haven't got a lot more.
12:12We've got Rogger's.
12:14Yes.
12:15I mean, I frankly didn't think of this one, and I haven't a clue what it means.
12:19It's an unusual one, actually.
12:21Nothing to do with Rogues, really.
12:23Well, not in the usual sense.
12:24A Rogger is a person employed to eliminate inferior or diseased plants in a crop.
12:29So if there's a potato crop, the Rogger will go along and pick out the diseased potato plants.
12:35How interesting.
12:36Is that a person or a sort of aphid or something?
12:40I think it's a person.
12:41It goes back to the 1800s, so I think.
12:43All right.
12:4431 plays 30, only a point in it.
12:47Jonathan, your numbers game.
12:48Two large and four small, please.
12:50You can indeed.
12:51Thank you, Jonathan.
12:51Two from the top, four little this time.
12:53And these little ones are six, nine, eight, three.
13:00And the large one, 75 and 100.
13:03And the target, 914.
13:06914.
13:07914.
13:07914.
13:07914.
13:38Well, Jonathan.
13:39914.
13:40And Bob.
13:41914.
13:42Jonathan.
13:439 times 100.
13:45900.
13:46Plus the 8, plus the 6.
13:48914.
13:49And Bob.
13:49The same way.
13:51There we go.
13:55Still only a point in the 41 to 40, Jonathan on 40, as we turn to Tim.
14:00And Tim, last time you were here, you talked about Beauty and the Beast, and now you're working on another film.
14:06Well, I'm actually working a bit on Lion King 2, which is coming out sometime this century.
14:15Actually, it's quite well advanced.
14:17But it's going to be, they say, a kind of live action version.
14:21But really, it's more like the Jungle Book.
14:23It's a different version of the Lion King, but we'll have one or two new songs and some of the old favourites.
14:31And they've also recently been working on, with Guy Ritchie, on Aladdin, which is yet another Disney remake.
14:39But I'm not too involved with that.
14:41I would have been quite keen to have done a couple of songs, but they've found somebody else.
14:47What?
14:48Yes.
14:49That's outrageous.
14:51That's the word I was looking for.
14:53No, actually, to be quite honest, I'm not sure, I mean, I never really felt Aladdin was one of my projects, whereas the Lion King definitely was.
15:00Oh, OK.
15:01But I've got a couple of songs in the Aladdin movies, so it's still well worth going to see.
15:06Of course.
15:07And Guy Ritchie is directing this one.
15:09He is, yes.
15:09He normally does the sort of, you know, shoot-em-up stuff.
15:11I mean, it's strange.
15:11I mean, I've never actually met Guy Ritchie, but normally I always associate him with, you know, pretty violent movies.
15:18Yeah.
15:18And I don't think we'll have Aladdin being chased down alleyways with blokes with, you know, submachine guns or anything like that.
15:26I don't know, but I'm sure it'll be good.
15:29Well, we look forward to that.
15:30We look forward to that.
15:31Well done.
15:35Lovely.
15:36So 40 plays 41, Bob on 41, and it's your letters game.
15:41Consonant, please, Rachel.
15:42Thank you, Bob.
15:44T.
15:45And second.
15:47L.
15:48A third.
15:50S.
15:52A vowel.
15:53U.
15:55Another vowel.
15:56I.
15:57And a third vowel.
16:00E.
16:01Consonant.
16:02Consonant.
16:03W.
16:05And another.
16:07R.
16:08And a consonant, please.
16:11And P.
16:12Stand by.
16:12And a consonant, please.
16:13And a consonant, please.
16:14And a consonant, please.
16:14And a consonant, please.
16:14And a consonant, please.
16:15And a consonant, please.
16:16And a consonant, please.
16:16And a consonant, please.
16:17And a consonant, please.
16:18And a consonant, please.
16:18And a consonant, please.
16:18And a consonant, please.
16:19And a consonant, please.
16:19And a consonant, please.
16:20And a consonant, please.
16:20And a consonant, please.
16:21And a consonant, please.
16:21And a consonant, please.
16:22And a consonant, please.
16:22And a consonant, please.
16:23And a consonant, please.
16:24And a consonant, please.
16:25And a consonant, please.
16:26And a consonant, please.
16:27And a consonant, please.
16:28And a consonant, please.
16:29And a consonant, please.
16:30Yes, Bob?
16:44Seven, not written down.
16:46And Jonathan?
16:47Six.
16:49And your six?
16:50Russell.
16:51Now then, Bob.
16:52Triples.
16:53Very nice.
16:54Yeah.
16:55Very good.
16:55And in the corner?
16:56Well, we didn't top triples.
16:58I began with tripe, which is not very good.
17:02But triples, I think, is as good as you can get.
17:04Anything else, Susie?
17:05No, we had Madeleine, and I was back on biscuits and cakes.
17:09Tuiles, which are kind of French thin-curved biscuit.
17:13And that will give you a six with a S on the end.
17:15All right.
17:1648 plays 40.
17:17Eight points in the lead now, Bob.
17:19And it's Jonathan's chance.
17:21Can I have a vowel, please?
17:22Thank you, Jonathan.
17:23O.
17:24And another?
17:27A.
17:28And another?
17:30E.
17:31Consonant, please.
17:33N.
17:34And another?
17:36L.
17:37Consonant, please.
17:39X.
17:41A vowel, please.
17:43O.
17:45Consonant.
17:47D.
17:49And a final consonant.
17:51And a final S.
17:54Stand by.
17:55And a final consonant.
17:56And a final consonant.
17:57And a final consonant.
17:57And a final consonant.
17:58And a final consonant.
17:58And a final consonant.
17:59And a final consonant.
17:59And a final consonant.
18:00And a final consonant.
18:00And a final consonant.
18:00And a final consonant.
18:00And a final consonant.
18:01And a final consonant.
18:01And a final consonant.
18:01And a final consonant.
18:02And a final consonant.
18:02And a final consonant.
18:02And a final consonant.
18:02And a final consonant.
18:03And a final consonant.
18:03And a final consonant.
18:04And a final consonant.
18:04And a final consonant.
18:04And a final consonant.
18:05And a final consonant.
18:05And a final consonant.
18:06And a final consonant.
18:06And a final consonant.
18:06And a final consonant.
18:07And a final consonant.
18:08And a final consonant.
18:08Yes, Jonathan.
18:26Six.
18:27Bob?
18:28Six.
18:29Jonathan?
18:30Laund.
18:31And Bob?
18:31Also laund.
18:33Tim?
18:34Well, continuing the food theme, which seems to have crept into the programme, we have noodles.
18:39Noodles.
18:40All right.
18:4154 to 46.
18:42And Bob, your numbers game.
18:44One large and five small, please, Rachel.
18:46Same again for you.
18:47Thank you, Bob.
18:48One from the top row.
18:50And this time, your selection is eight, four, eight, seven, nine.
18:57And the large one, 50.
18:58And the target?
19:02455.
19:02Four, five, five.
19:04Four, five, five.
19:04Four, five, five.
19:35Four, five, five.
19:37Four, five, five.
19:38Jonathan, four, five, five.
19:40Off we go, Bob.
19:41Fifty times nine.
19:43Four hundred and fifty.
19:44Plus four.
19:46Four, five, four.
19:47And then eight minus seven is one.
19:49Yeah.
19:49And that.
19:50Lovely.
19:50Four, five, five.
19:51And Jonathan.
19:52And the same.
19:53Same way.
19:55Well done.
20:00Now it's time for our second tea time teaser, which is Lou Plenty and the clue.
20:05Lou had plenty of money and as such, his house was decorated this way.
20:10Lou had plenty of money and as such, his house was decorated this way.
20:14Welcome back.
20:31Welcome back.
20:32I left you with the clue.
20:33Lou had plenty of money and as such, his house was decorated this way.
20:37It was decorated opulently.
20:40Opulently.
20:4164 to 56.
20:43Bob in the lead and it's Jonathan's letters game.
20:46Jonathan.
20:47A consonant please.
20:48Thank you, Jonathan.
20:49M.
20:51And a vowel.
20:53A.
20:54Another vowel.
20:56B.
20:57A consonant please.
20:58S.
20:59S.
21:00And another.
21:02N.
21:04Another consonant please.
21:07N.
21:08Vowel.
21:10U.
21:12Vowel.
21:14A.
21:15And finally a consonant please.
21:17And finally M.
21:19Stand by.
21:20Bye.
21:43Bye.
21:44Jonathan.
21:52Only a five.
21:53Five, Bob?
21:55I'll try seven.
21:57OK, Jonathan.
21:58Names.
21:59Now, Bob.
22:00Un-names.
22:02I don't think it is in unnamed or unnameable,
22:05but not an active verb, I'm afraid, Bob.
22:07Sorry.
22:08I'd like that. I'd like.
22:10Tim and Susie?
22:11Well, I'm surprised at un-names, frankly,
22:13but un-mans is OK.
22:15To un-man somebody?
22:17Yes.
22:17It's a bit like emasculating them in some way.
22:19Yeah, yeah, sure.
22:19And manna for five.
22:21Manna for heaven.
22:22Senna, is that not?
22:23Senna, yeah.
22:24Senna, yeah.
22:2564 plays 61.
22:27Bob on 64.
22:28Bob, your letters go.
22:30The consonant, please, Rachel.
22:32Thank you, Bob.
22:33S.
22:34And second.
22:36T.
22:37And a third.
22:40R.
22:40And a fourth.
22:43F.
22:44A vowel.
22:45I.
22:47A vowel.
22:48O.
22:49And a vowel.
22:51A.
22:53Consonant.
22:55M.
22:56And a vowel.
22:58And lastly, O.
23:00And the clock starts now.
23:02F.
23:04A vowel.
23:07MUSIC PLAYS
23:32Well, Bob?
23:33Seven.
23:34A seven, yes.
23:36Five.
23:37Five from Jonathan.
23:39And your five?
23:40Firms.
23:41Now, Bob?
23:43Formats.
23:43Yes.
23:44Very nice.
23:45Happy enough?
23:46Yes, we like formats.
23:47And mafioso, apparently, is OK.
23:49Yes, you can have it with a capital M or with a lowercase m.
23:52It's a good word, isn't it?
23:53A mafioso.
23:53A mafioso.
23:54Brilliant.
23:56Mafioso.
23:5771 to 61, ten points in it,
23:59as we turn to Susie for her wonderful origins of words.
24:03And today, Susie?
24:04Today, I'm going to try to answer an email
24:07from Bernard Baker in Reading,
24:09who asks for the origin of having a kip and also 40 winks,
24:13something we hope our viewers aren't doing during the programme.
24:16The first thing to say is that kip for a sleep
24:19has nothing to do with kippers.
24:21That probably comes from the word copper
24:23because of their colour when they're cured.
24:26The word kip, in this case, is actually borrowing from Danish,
24:30where a kipper was a hut or an ale house,
24:32and a whore kipper was a brothel.
24:35So the very first meaning of kip when it passed into English
24:38in the 18th century was a house of ill repute.
24:41And a kip shop, rather than a chip shop, was a bordello.
24:44So that's what it was on the streets of 18th century London.
24:48But a century later, it had lost its senior reputation, if you like,
24:53and it was used for any cheap lodging house.
24:56Cheap being the operative word there.
24:58So according to the Palmall Gazette in 1883,
25:01you could kip there for the moderate sum of fourpence.
25:05So you could kip in the kip.
25:07So that accommodation included a bed,
25:09hence the idea of sleeping,
25:11and that's why we have a kip today.
25:13So it's sort of slightly strange,
25:14and as I say, slightly seemly beginning there.
25:17As for 40 winks, I'll start with that word wink.
25:20Today when we wink, we open and close our eyes quite quickly,
25:22but in Anglo-Saxon times,
25:25to wink, and winking was the verb,
25:27was simply to close the eyes completely.
25:30To hoodwink somebody was to blindfold them,
25:34literally with a hood,
25:35obviously prior to attacking or executing them.
25:37So the idea was closing their eyes with a hood.
25:39So to take 40 winks was to close your eyes for 40 minutes.
25:45As to why it was 40, we're not completely sure,
25:48but there's one etymologist,
25:50Charles Earl Funk, American etymologist,
25:52who took a guess,
25:53and he referred to the 39 articles,
25:55the Articles of Faith in the Church of England,
25:58which the clergy are required to accept.
26:01It was compulsory to adopt these by parliamentary action.
26:05I think it was Elizabeth I who decreed
26:07that all the clergy must accept this.
26:09And he says the perusal of these articles
26:10is likely to be considered most dreary.
26:13So you get through the 39,
26:15maybe have an extra one on top,
26:17and that might have given us 40 winks.
26:18We're not quite sure why the 40,
26:20but certainly winking was just closing your eyes completely.
26:23And finally, the land of nod,
26:24that was simply a punning reference
26:25to the lands mentioned in the book of Genesis,
26:27when we nod off our head falls,
26:29obviously, and we have a snooze.
26:31So there you go.
26:31Three expressions for having a kit,
26:34but please wait till after the show.
26:35Excellent.
26:36Well done.
26:37Good job.
26:41Wonderful.
26:42Thanks, Susie.
26:4371 to 61, Bob in the lead.
26:45Jonathan, penultimate letters game.
26:47Continent, please.
26:49Thank you, Jonathan.
26:50Y.
26:51And another.
26:54C.
26:54And a third, please.
26:57N.
26:58Val.
27:00U.
27:01Val.
27:02E.
27:04And a third.
27:06A.
27:08Consonant.
27:10V.
27:11Consonant.
27:13G.
27:14And a final vowel, please.
27:16And a final O.
27:20Stand by.
27:21And a final vowel, please.
27:22And a final vowel, please.
27:23And a final vowel, please.
27:23And a final vowel, please.
27:24And a final vowel, please.
27:25And a final vowel, please.
27:26And a final vowel, please.
27:27And a final vowel, please.
27:28And a final vowel, please.
27:29And a final vowel, please.
27:30And a final vowel, please.
27:31And a final vowel, please.
27:32And a final vowel, please.
27:33And a final vowel, please.
27:34And a final vowel, please.
27:35And a final vowel, please.
27:36And a final vowel, please.
27:37And a final vowel, please.
27:38And a final vowel, please.
27:39And a final vowel, please.
27:40And a final vowel, please.
27:41And a final vowel, please.
27:42And a final vowel, please.
27:43And a final vowel, please.
27:44well jonathan five five bob five jonathan a gone and bob canoe both absolutely fine a gone
28:03is in their um an archaic form of ago that's absolutely fine can we match five can we beat
28:09five even tim yes we've got um voyage yes um agency and convey all for six but it's um i don't think
28:19above that not that we can find no thank you thank you 76 to 66 still 10 points in it and it's bob we
28:28turn to now yes bob constant please rachel thank you bob s and another d and a third
28:37l a vowel u and another i and a third e a consonant t consonant n
28:54and a vowel please and the last one o countdown
29:02so
29:07so
29:12Hmm, Bob?
29:35Eight.
29:36An eight, and Jonathan?
29:38Eight, risky ears, but...
29:40Yep.
29:40Bob?
29:42Outlined.
29:42And dilutants.
29:45Um, oh, I think you can have diluants.
29:47I'm not sure if you're thinking of that sort of diluting substance.
29:50Um, yes, it's just dilute, not dilutant.
29:52I'm sorry.
29:53Bad line.
29:54Tim and Susie?
29:55Um, solitude.
29:57Oh.
29:58Seems to be there.
29:59And insulted.
30:02Yes.
30:02Insulted.
30:03Well done.
30:06Solitude.
30:08Have your word.
30:0884 to 66.
30:10And now, Jonathan, it's the final numbers game for you.
30:13Two large and four small, please.
30:15Not going to gamble.
30:1618 behind.
30:1720 points remaining.
30:19We'll stick with what we need.
30:20Two large and four small.
30:21Let's see if it pays off.
30:22Thank you, Jonathan.
30:23I tried.
30:24The final numbers are...
30:25Eight, nine, seven, nine.
30:29Could be tricky anyway, then.
30:30And the large one, 75 and 100.
30:33And the target.
30:36524.
30:37Five, two, four.
30:38Five, three, four.
30:39What's possible?
30:43So...
30:45Five, three, four.
30:55Well, Jonathan.
31:11Five, two, six.
31:13Two away. And Bob?
31:15Five, two, two. Not fully written down.
31:18Let's begin, then, with, um...
31:22Jonathan.
31:2375 multiplied by 8.
31:2675 by 8, 600.
31:299 times 9 is 81.
31:32Yeah.
31:32And subtract.
31:34519.
31:35And plus Lee, 7.
31:37Yeah. Two above.
31:39And Bob?
31:419 minus 7.
31:429 minus 7 is 2.
31:43100 divided by 2.
31:46Is 50.
31:48Plus 8.
31:5058.
31:51Times the other 9.
31:53Times by 9 is 522.
31:56And you haven't used those yet.
31:58Well done.
31:59So it's a straddle job.
32:01524?
32:02Well, I suspect maybe you don't know your 75 times table,
32:05because 75 times 7 is 525.
32:10And then 9 minus 8 is 4.
32:11There it is.
32:13Oh, well done.
32:14So 91 plays 73.
32:19Bob on 91 as we go dancing into the final round.
32:23It's the conundrum time.
32:26Gentlemen.
32:26Fingers on buzzers.
32:28Let's roll today's Countdown Conundrum.
32:30Bob.
32:36Cascading.
32:36Cascading.
32:38Let's see whether you're right.
32:39Bit of a nod there from Jonathan.
32:40Cascading.
32:41Here we go.
32:42Cascading.
32:43Very good.
32:44Well done, Bob.
32:49Good win.
32:50101 points.
32:51Well done.
32:52And your fourth win.
32:54Congratulations there.
32:56Jonathan, you played a stormer, actually.
32:58Very good.
32:5973, but the day goes to Bob.
33:02So it's with this goodie bang for you to take back to Sunderland.
33:07Thanks very much for coming.
33:08Well done.
33:08And we shall see you tomorrow, Bob.
33:09Well done.
33:10Well done.
33:12Now, before we close down for today,
33:17your songs are just sung around the world,
33:20but some people don't sing them perhaps as well as they might.
33:24What's the worst version you've ever had?
33:26Well, I think probably One Night in Bangkok was sung in,
33:31I think, Hangover 2 or possibly Hangover 3
33:35by the boxer Mike Tyson.
33:38Oh, right.
33:39And I wouldn't want to tell him this personally,
33:42but it was pretty awful.
33:45And I remember hearing he'd done it,
33:47and I got hold of a copy and I heard it,
33:49and I thought, this is excruciating.
33:51This is just the sound.
33:52Yes.
33:53I rang up Benny Anderson to tell him this,
33:55because Benny and Bjorn of ABBA wrote the tune of One Night in Bangkok.
33:59And I said, Benny, I've got good news
34:02in that we're in a film with One Night in Bangkok.
34:05It's been covered in a film,
34:06but it's a terrible version by Mike Tyson,
34:08and I want you to ring him up and tell him.
34:12Yeah, Mike Tyson, my word.
34:14Not known for his singing, I imagine.
34:16No, he didn't have a follow-up.
34:19Thanks so much.
34:20You come back tomorrow.
34:21I will come back tomorrow.
34:23Lovely.
34:23And Susie too?
34:24Yeah, see you then.
34:24See you tomorrow.
34:25And Rachel, of course.
34:26I'll be back.
34:27Same time, same place.
34:29You be sure of it.
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