Ben On Jeopardy!

[Joe Hass]

I'd like to thank the governor of Illinois for wrapping up perfectly at 3:30 so I didn't miss anything except Ben's introduction.

[Doug Fields]

No spoilers.  Some of us don’t get our new episodes until 7:30pm Eastern.

 

Doug Fields

Tampa, FL

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[Jon Delfin]

And some of us get it at 7 ET, but are spending that hour solving British crossword puzzles and so don't watch until later. (What, just me?)

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[John Edwards]

The West Coast contingent likely doesn’t get it until 7:30 Pacific. 

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[Joe Hass]

To be *abundantly* clear: there was *never* an intent to post *anything* about the content of the episode prior to 11:00 PM ET/8:00 PM PT. Since here in Chicago it airs at 3:30, I tuned in at 3:27 only to see Governor Pritzker's face and thought "Oh, you've gotta be *kidding* me! I'm gonna miss this!". Then he wrapped up and Channel 7 joined the episode literally just as the returning champion was being introduced. This made me very happy.

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[Brad Beam]

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>To be *abundantly* clear: there was *never* an intent to post *anything* about the content of the episode prior to 11:00 PM ET/8:00 PM PT.

 

And in case anyone’s curious, this covers Alaska (6p/10p ET) and Hawaii (4:30p/10:30p ET).

 

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Hass

>To be *abundantly* clear: there was *never* an intent to post *anything* about the content of the episode prior to 11:00 PM ET/8:00 PM PT. Since here in Chicago it airs at 3:30, I tuned in at 3:27 only to see Governor Pritzker's face and thought "Oh, you've gotta be *kidding* me! I'm gonna miss this!". Then he wrapped up and Channel 7 joined the episode literally just as the returning champion was being introduced. This made me very happy.

 

On a sidelight – and maybe Jim can explain it – throughout tonight’s episode I also received the closed-captioning from an episode of “Wheel of Fortune.”

[Jim Ellwanger]

On May 18, 2020, at 7:24 PM, Brad Beam <b.b...@suddenlink.net> wrote:

On a sidelight – and maybe Jim can explain it – throughout tonight’s episode I also received the closed-captioning from an episode of “Wheel of Fortune.”

I worked in captioning back in the Analog Era, and I know things are different here in the Digital Era -- I suspect the caption files are distributed to local stations separately from the program files, and your local station got confused about which was which. (I just checked, and "Jeopardy!" had the correct captions on the broadcast here in L.A.)

[Jim Ellwanger]

Just in case any members of the list didn't get a chance to see Ben on today's "Jeopardy!"...

http://www.ellwanger.tv/temp/jeopardy20200518.mp4

(I'll probably only keep this up for a couple of days.)

[Joe Hass]

By pure luck, I'm up, and it's after 11:00 PM ET so...

First off, the heartiest of congratulations! Helluva comeback!

What I want to desperately know is what Ben was thinking when they revealed Nancy's wager. Because I was looking at the clock watching live and I thought to myself as they went to break before Final "This seems kinda early. They're going to the tiebreaker." Ben's response was revealed, and I said to my six-year-old "Tiebreaker coming up." Alex made his comment about Nancy not looking happy, and I thought "Well, at least she's got the tiebreaker." And then...there was no tiebreaker.

[JW]

Now that Joe has spoiled the outcome (I'm never sure what's appropriate in the DVR age), I'll add my congratulations to Ben and add a question that I find myself wondering about: After an ending, what do you say to the contestant whose error allowed you to win? Is it just "Good game"?

And thanks to Jim for putting up the recording for those who didn't see it.

[Adam Bowie]

Thanks for sharing!

[Joe Hass]

My argument is simple: daily game shows, by their nature, are more suited to the rules that would apply to a sporting event (albeit one that's not carried live everywhere) than a scripted television program. Therefore, while it's respectful to not spoil the ending in a situation where parts of the country have not seen the episode, given that there's another episode airing 24 hours later (and that the title of this thread was reasonably clear that how he performed was the topic), I'm not sure how long you'd want to wait (or adding spoiler space) before we could talk about it.

[Doug Fields]

I don’t think anybody was asking anything more than just wait until everybody in the group, across multiple time zones, had had a chance to watch live.  It sounds like you’re confusing the “no spoiler” requests with a request that you don’t spoil “Jeopardy!” in general for us.  I personally couldn’t care less if you announce the winners every day as soon as you see them…this was a one-time request for a unique situation:  we (well, *I* anyway) didn’t want to know the results of his particular match in advance.

 

And, now that we get at least one more day of his run, I would repeat the request for no spoilers until late tonight.  😊

 

Doug Fields

Tampa, FL

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[Ben Scripps]

On May 19, 2020, at 12:29 AM, Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By pure luck, I'm up, and it's after 11:00 PM ET so...
>
> First off, the heartiest of congratulations! Helluva comeback!
>
> What I want to desperately know is what Ben was thinking when they revealed Nancy's wager. Because I was looking at the clock watching live and I thought to myself as they went to break before Final "This seems kinda early. They're going to the tiebreaker." Ben's response was revealed, and I said to my six-year-old "Tiebreaker coming up." Alex made his comment about Nancy not looking happy, and I thought "Well, at least she's got the tiebreaker." And then...there was no tiebreaker.

When Ken lost his 75th, they had Nancy Zerg on an iso cam and were able to cut to her reaction when Ken’s response was revealed. I really wish they had the same for me when Alex said that about Megan, ‘cause I’d love to see the look on my own face. In the diary of notes I wrote after getting back to the hotel, all I wrote was that Alex said “Megan's not looking happy" and all I could think was “Wait, what?!?”

Megan really had a tough decision on her wager; on the one hand, if she’s confident in “America in the 1700’s”, play for the win, and if not, maybe play for the tie. I don’t envy her for having to make that decision. If our roles had been reversed, you would have seen a tiebreaker; I wouldn’t have wagered a penny on that category if I didn’t have to.

And as to what I said to her afterward, I wish I could tell you, but I really honestly don’t remember. Obviously there’s more than a little bit running through your head at that moment...

[PGage]

Just in case...

Congratulations Ben, not just on the result, but on the entire way you carried yourself during an exciting game. You were fun and easy going in a very stressful situation. I think you missed two DD (not to rub that in) but you kept your cool and your charm and your head in the game. When you got the penultimate question wrong and dropped below her mid point, I was really bummed, and could not do the math quickly enough to figure out if you could still get within sticking distance with that one, minimum question left. When you got it and the score showed you just barely made it, like many others I thought we might be in for the tie. 

But I agree with you that her decision was not necessarily a bad one. American history is a strong point of mine, and if I were in her position a I think I would have bet on that category, knowing I would have time to think about it, rather than take a flyer on an unknown category that also is a reaction time challenge. The real surprise to me was not that she bet, but that she got what really was a relatively easy FJ answer wrong, when she was such a strong player throughout the game. It looked to me that she was in one of those situations that you were with the caviar question - where she probably knew the answer but just had a situational brain lock.

And let’s not forget to be impressed by Ben’s handicap. I think I have played once in my life with someone who had a handicap under 15, and the level of intimidation and demoralization was as if I had been playing against Tiger Woods. A 12 handicapper is always a threat to get a par on any hole, and gets a few birdies every round. I play with guys who literally treat every 6 like we got a par 4, and a true par is a Rae and precious event.

Good luck this evening (I know whatever it is has already happened to you, but still, you know...)

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When Ken lost his 75th, they had Nancy Zerg on an iso cam and were able to cut to her reaction when Ken’s response was revealed.  I really wish they had the same for me when Alex said that about Megan, ‘cause I’d love to see the look on my own face.  In the diary of notes I wrote after getting back to the hotel, all I wrote was that Alex said “Megan's not looking happy" and all I could think was “Wait, what?!?” 

Megan really had a tough decision on her wager; on the one hand, if she’s confident in “America in the 1700’s”, play for the win, and if not, maybe play for the tie.  I don’t envy her for having to make that decision.  If our roles had been reversed, you would have seen a tiebreaker; I wouldn’t have wagered a penny on that category if I didn’t have to.

And as to what I said to her afterward, I wish I could tell you, but I really honestly don’t remember. Obviously there’s more than a little bit running through your head at that moment...

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[Diner]

Just in case two...

Congratulations Ben! I echo all the previous comments. Very impressive.

And I was once again reminded why I would never make it on Jeopardy - the fact that I, a former theatre critic, couldn't remember who wrote Angels in America. :)

Keep it going.

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[Melissa P]

I'm pretty sure I giggled out loud at the end of the show yesterday.

I really enjoyed your performance, Ben.

[Kevin M.]

I’m just curious enough that I might have to look for the other contestants on the social media to get their perspectives on the episode and the surprise twist ending!

Well done, Ben. Good you can keep the streak going. 

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[Dino Alexander]

 

It was amazing watching you in action, Ben! Congrats on your win from one J! alum to another! 😊

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[JW]

>:My argument is simple: daily game shows, by their nature, are more suited to

> the rules that would apply to a sporting event (albeit one that's not carried live
> everywhere) than a scripted television program. Therefore, while it's respectful to

> not spoil the ending in a situation where parts of the country have not seen the

> episode, given that there's another episode airing 24 hours later (and that the

> title of this thread was reasonably clear that how he performed was the topic),

> I'm not sure how long you'd want to wait (or adding spoiler space) before we

> could talk about it.

First, it wasn't meant as criticism, and if it came across that way, I'm sorry. Somebody was going to be the first to mention the result; I just didn't want it to be me.

I'm reasonably sure that I'm not the only one who records Jeopardy! every day. When there are places to go and things to do, they can stack up. And even when it's just watching later in the evening of broadcast, seeing relatively harmless tweets about questions from that night's show can be a bit frustrating. So I'm not clear on what the appropriate space is; I appreciate that everyone here is trying to do the respectful thing. And, yes, having a list member on the show is a special case.

(For sporting events, on the other hand, if they're important enough to record, I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm extremely unlikely to be able to avoid exposure to the result.)

[JW]

> And as to what I said to her afterward, I wish I could tell you, but I really honestly

> don’t remember. Obviously there’s more than a little bit running through your head

> at that moment...

Fair enough. And I'll assume that if things had been awkward, that would have been memorable.

[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Diner

>And I was once again reminded why I would never make it on Jeopardy - the fact that I, a former theatre critic, couldn't remember who wrote Angels in America. :)

 

I would be worried if word got out to my Russian-born stepsister-in-law that I didn’t exactly light up that category last night….

[Steve Timko]

I did not know Jonathan Edwards, was well enough known to be a low dollar question. The only place I have encountered him is when Joseph Campbell quoted a line from "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

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[Karen Owen]

Congratulations!  Great on screen presence and rapport with Alex.

I will be watching again tonight.

Coincidentally I recently read something about Articles of Confederation.

I have been using Ancestry and other historical resources that

are available on line now while things are closed to do some

genealogy research.  I was reading some diaries that were

published in the 19th century from my famous ancestor who

signed the Articles where he wrote about their adoption by Congress.



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[Ben Scripps]

First off, a blanket thanks to everyone who sent kind words—I knew there’d be a lot of attention after this, but holy crap have my social media and text messages exploded!

And I still feel a little bad about missing that DD; I took three semesters of Russian in college, and to this day I think the best I could do is count to ten. 

BTW, and I can’t remember if I’ve told this here or not (I’ve told these stories so many times over the past couple of days, so apologies if I’m repeating myself), but I had absolutely zero awareness of the scores when I got that last clue correct.  My dad in the audience said he was watching the scores and knew what needed to happen, but the look of surprise on my face is 100% genuine.

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[Jon Delfin]

As the fellow I didn't recognize said on the "Chase" outtake I saw today, it makes for good telly. 

 

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[Joe Hass]

Here, for whatever it's worth, is what makes no sense to me:

From everything I've learned, if you're in the lead in a lock-tie situation (i.e., the leader's score is exactly double the second place score), you effectively have two options: bet zero and roll the dice on the tiebreaker if they're right, or bet everything and hope you get it right.*

But betting some small amount in between? You're effectively leaving money on the table. And that was what I couldn't comprehend about Megan's wager. It's almost as if she forgot that the losers don't keep the cash.

*Pedantics will argue that you could bet enough to guarantee at worst a second-place finish to guarantee an extra grand on the incorrect response, but what fun is that?

[Jon Delfin]

*Pedants will point out that pedantic is an adjective, not a noun. 

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[PGage]

I did not do the math, but my assumption was that she want to bet enough to maximize her take if she won, but still have more than 2X the third place player, in case he and she got it right and Ben got it wrong.

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[David Bruggeman]

While I remember hearing about Edwards and "Sinners..." in high school, I think pairing him with Jonathan Swift probably pulled the clue to the $600 level.

FWIW, J! Archive already has tonight's game up, so aco

[David Bruggeman]

Let me echo what was said earlier about how engaging and personable Ben was during the game.  Without disclosing what happens tonight, Ben continued to be fun to watch.

There seems to be so much contestants have to pay attention to during the game (including tracking - or not - the scores) that I don't fault any player for not being 'good TV' because they're focused on the game.  I know that production tries to factor this in during contestant searches, but even the gameplay during the auditions can't replicate the studio experience.

(That said, I suspect it's the weakest part of my

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First off, a blanket thanks to everyone who sent kind words—I knew there’d be a lot of attention after this, but holy crap have my social media and text messages exploded!

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[Jim Ellwanger]

Here is Tuesday's show:

http://www.ellwanger.tv/temp/jeopardy20200519.mp4

(As a bonus, it begins with the Ben-centric episodic promo, which I managed to capture during "World News Tonight.")

[PGage]

Edwards really is one of the two or three greatest intellectuals in American history, and the title of his best known sermon does not really illustrate the quality of his theological and philosophical thought.

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[PGage]

Win or lose in Game 2, I guess the first question for Ben is, are you going to try to go to the last night of The Proms? Are they even having it this year 

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[John Edwards]

The BBC won't announce a decision on that until the end of the month. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/384LXFP6B13d4q2GnLx8HGy/an-update-on-the-2020-proms) The UK finally got around to imposing a two-week quarantine on incoming visitors, so unless that doesn't go long, the Last Night of the Proms would become the Last Fortnight of the Proms. :-)

I was supposed to go over in early August for a cricket match, and I'm waiting for confirmation that it is officially off. 

John

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[Adam Bowie]

I've never been to The Last Night of the Proms, but I have been to other Proms and they're always good fun. 

I fear that the Last Night... trip will have to wait until at least 2021. The BBC may not have confirmed it yet, but there's no way the Proms will be going ahead in their usual guise. 

But great fun watching - and cheers Jim, once again, for sharing.

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[Dave Sikula]

Well done, and multiple congrats.

Yeah, those Daily Doubles are murder. My two degrees in theatre history did squat for me on Shakespeare.

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On Tuesday, May 19, 2020 at 6:06:46 PM UTC-7, Ben Scripps wrote:

First off, a blanket thanks to everyone who sent kind words—I knew there’d be a lot of attention after this, but holy crap have my social media and text messages exploded!

And I still feel a little bad about missing that DD; I took three semesters of Russian in college, and to this day I think the best I could do is count to ten. 

BTW, and I can’t remember if I’ve told this here or not (I’ve told these stories so many times over the past couple of days, so apologies if I’m repeating myself), but I had absolutely zero awareness of the scores when I got that last clue correct.  My dad in the audience said he was watching the scores and knew what needed to happen, but the look of surprise on my face is 100% genuine.

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From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Diner

>And I was once again reminded why I would never make it on Jeopardy - the fact that I, a former theatre critic, couldn't remember who wrote Angels in America. :)

 

I would be worried if word got out to my Russian-born stepsister-in-law that I didn’t exactly light up that category last night….

 

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[Ben Scripps]

There’s a delay between your last episode’s air date and when you actually get the check, so getting the finances sorted for a trip this year was never really in the cards.  

But that’s the nice thing about the Proms; they seem to be able to survive and thrive from year to year…:-) 

 

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[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Scripps

>There’s a delay between your last episode’s air date and when you actually get the check, so getting the finances sorted for a trip this year was never really in the cards.  

 

I have a couple non-spoiler questions (as we approach 11:00 in the East):

-Does your station air “Jeopardy!”? If not, how has your station – as well as the other station – been promoting your appearance?

-What was the significance of the $1,042 wager last night in Final?

[Jim Ellwanger]

On May 20, 2020, at 8:00 PM, Brad Beam <b.b...@suddenlink.net> wrote:

-Does your station air “Jeopardy!”?

I can answer this part based on the paperwork I've filled out every time I've tried out for the show -- if he worked for a station that aired "Jeopardy!", he would have been ineligible.

Sorry I don't have Wednesday's episode to share with the list, but I had some apparent reception problems that are causing my DVR software to not be able to export a complete file.

[Ben Scripps]

When they called me, I actually had a two-part phone call; after I confirmed my station isn’t a J! affiliate, the contestant coordinator said she still needed to run it past her boss to make sure I was good.  So I got the call, then had to sit on that information for about four hours waiting to hear if I’d be approved or shot down.

We haven’t promoted on-air at my station at all; the station that carries it in my market is an NBC affil, and there isn’t really anything on NBC I watch, so I haven’t seen if they’ve done anything local.  I know they ran the promo Sony produced which featured me heavily, but I haven’t heard anything directly from them.  I did do a radio interview with my old friend from college (we’re both game show nerds), the local paper did a front-page story on me (small town America…), but that’s it so far.  I’ve watched each episode at work with the few co-workers in the building and on a Zoom meeting with much of the remaining staff at home.  (BTW, here’s the video from Final on night #1: http://www.benscripps.com/transfer/reax.mp4 )

As for the $1,042—the thousand part was ‘cause I had some wiggle room for wagering and didn’t want to be one of those people who wagers nothing.  The $42 was a pure call-out to “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

> On May 20, 2020, at 10:18 PM, Ben Scripps <b...@benscripps.com> wrote:
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> When they called me, I actually had a two-part phone call; after I confirmed my station isn’t a J! affiliate, the contestant coordinator said she still needed to run it past her boss to make sure I was good. So I got the call, then had to sit on that information for about four hours waiting to hear if I’d be approved or shot down.

Now I can't help but wonder about this theoretical situation: someone who works for a local TV station is on as a contestant at the end of the season, and carries over to next season as the returning champion. For the new season, the station they work for starts carrying "Jeopardy!". What do the producers do?

(I suspect that's not actually going to come up, since they should know the affiliate contract situation well in advance. In fact, that may have been something they checked while you were waiting.)

[PGage]

I didn’t realize they don’t pay until after the episodes show; I would have assumed they gave you a check on your way out the door. Is that to enforce your silence until air time?

We have talked a bit before about how Alex can be a bit of a dick at times, but he clearly liked you. Why not, you were likable, but I think in particular you had the talent of being comfortable and verbal, without threatening his control or the time limits of any interaction. I imagine Alex really doesn’t like contestants who are either so nervous they hardly talk, or so loquacious they take over. Do you think your job helped prepare you to comfortably occupy the short windows for talking on television, or is that just your personality (I suspect I would be weirdly and obnoxiously both too cryptically nervous and too controllingly Over-talking). 

Congratulations again on a very successful, entertaining and engaging run. Your three games explored almost the full range of the Jeopardy experience, as Alex kind of foreshadowed in his introduction last night. To win a good chunk of change, show off your J-Skills and schmooze with Alex is a dream come true I’m sure, and well deserved.

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Congratulations, Ben, on living the dream and doing it delightfully.

Watching you win was thrilling. And even when you fell short, you were still incredibly engaging, and it made for compelling TV. (I know that's not very comforting, but still!)

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[Ben Scripps]

I never did hear a reason for why the check takes so long, but I don’t think it’s to keep us from gabbing spoilers in advance.  I would imagine it has something to do with bureaucracy and paperwork and yadda.

The job definitely helped a lot.  As part of my broadcasting major, I had to take at least one class in performance, and I’ve been around the business for almost a quarter of a century now, so while I wouldn’t say I’m an expert, I’d say I’m certainly comfortable.  Apologies again if I’ve told this story here before, but my dad and step-mom came out to see the taping, and my dad was worried I’d be nervous.  No matter how many times I told him I’d be okay, he kept telling me I should go out to our news set and sit in front of the cameras with the lights on, just to get used to being under the lights.  After the taping was done, he told me that the moment he heard me respond “What is Canada, eh?!”, he knew he’d been wrong and that I was perfectly fine.

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[Jon Delfin]

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:39 PM Ben Scripps <b...@benscripps.com> wrote:

I never did hear a reason for why the check takes so long, but I don’t think it’s to keep us from gabbing spoilers in advance.  I would imagine it has something to do with bureaucracy and paperwork and yadda. [snip]

Admittedly, this information is ancient, as I haven't been on a game show in more than 25 years, but what I was told then (or the time before? 40 years) was that the prizes were held until the show actually aired -- because if the show *didn't* air, they could rescind the prizes. But as long as at least one market saw it, it happened. (And some of the "consolation" prizes started arriving right away, so, so much for that.) 

[John Edwards]

You certainly looked fine. I can only echo what everybody else here has said. Congratulations on your run, and thank you for a certainly entertaining week, both on the box and on the list, and hopefully the trip to the Proms works out next year. 

John

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