History Box - Canoe Man Part 5
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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‘John Jones’ turns himself in, the bloody government, George Michael’s origin story, and atrocious workplace conduct. (Rec: 7/12/21)
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| 1:15.6 | This is top flight time machine, I am Andy Hopbody Dawson, Pa, Pa, Pa, Pa. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm 70 Delaney, so well. Welcome along to history box, and we continue to unravel the saga |
| 1:27.8 | of canoe man John Darwin from about 15 years ago or so. The man, of course, he disappeared, |
| 1:35.2 | fictitious death, escaped Panama, came back, and there was all for 250 grand worth of insurance |
| 1:44.5 | fraud. Have you ever told your kids about the case of John Darwin? I don't think I have. |
| 1:50.4 | I guess you have been. I told Len about it, and it was, it was fucking it. It's just that you |
| 1:58.0 | realize as you're telling it, this is a brilliant story for a young boy, right? Yeah, he's just like |
| 2:03.4 | the eyes get wider and wider. But even he, when he said how much money did he get? And I said |
| 2:10.4 | about 250 grand, even Len who is 10 was like, what? 250 grand. He told his kids he was dead. |
| 2:18.4 | Yeah, but his favorite bit, because as you fans of the Lennon verse or no, one of Len's favorite |
| 2:24.8 | things and greatest talents is making up names, fictional names. So why we got into it was he |
| 2:31.6 | actually said that John Jones would be a really terrible made up name for someone. And I said, |
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