TFTM Gold: The Twits Odyssey - Part 13

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Sports & Recreation, Soccer, Sports, Comedy

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

(Rec: 21/10/20) Steve Jobs’ original iPhone plans, pub ashtrays, 1980s Tory cuts, tortoises and Dahl vs Blue Peter.

Join the Iron Filings Society: https://www.patreon.com/topflighttimemachine and on Apple Podcast Subscriptions. Get a 7-day full access free trial and pay for 10 months up front for the price of 12 if you like a bargain.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Here we go.
0:04.1	Here we go.
0:08.1	Here we go. Here we go.
0:10.2	Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Fly Time Machine. I'm Andy Dawson.
0:16.1	Pa, pow, pow.
0:16.9	I'm 70. The lady. So what?
0:18.7	It's the Twit Odyssey again. We're approaching the end of Roll Dahl for the Twits, which we're doing, and we have done for the past three months or so. Didn't think it would go on this long, if I'm honest. We never do. There's only a short word. Well, I've got you. I think we should do Ripley's again this Christmas for a few weeks because I enjoyed Ripley's last year and there's a new one in the shops now. I think we should randomly dive it to that again. Feels Christmasy, doesn't it? Yeah, it could be a Christmas tradition, couldn't it? Yeah, I'll probably be asking for it for Christmas for myself or buying it for my son. Get out and buy it now. Yeah. We'll dive into it. And don't forget, we were watching on Discovery for a while. I think you were watching it too. The TV show of Ripleys, please believe it or not. No, I didn't watch it. I forgot about that because you suggested it and I didn't get right to it. Was there some Hollywood star that presented it or something?
1:13.4	Yeah, I didn't recognise him, but he was so captivating that I did some digging.
1:18.0	And he was just some guy who'd been in lots of, you know, B-movies and every TV.
1:25.1	And also every TV show, you know, been in Night Rider and everything that our old mate made, I think he'd been in. We'd have done it back. Oh, Glennie Larson. Glenn A Larson, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, all right. Is there a Glennie Larson biography? I wonder if there is. Fucking wants to be, doesn't there? We'll write one and then dive it. Yeah. The man who built the dreams that drove us, something like that. I mean, you know, he's like people go on about Walt Disney and Steve Jobs, don't they? But where's, where's the love for Glenn A. Larson, a man who is the very much the architect of the popular culture
2:02.7	that shaped us all.
2:04.3	Have you seen the Steve Jobs documentary film that's out?
2:07.9	No.
2:08.4	Is it interesting?
2:09.2	It's on Sky Documentaries.
2:10.4	It is interesting.
2:12.0	I don't know much about him.
2:13.0	I never watched that film about him.
2:15.2	He was a cunt.
2:16.1	Yeah, I know he's a cunt, yeah.
2:17.7	Yeah, massive cund.
2:20.2	For lots of different reasons.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.