TFTM Gold: The Twits Odyssey - Part 7
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
(Rec: 9/9/20) Entrepreneurship, mystical yogi people, the Puffin Club, Ron Dahl’s war on the censors, and a TFTM hero appears in the book.
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| 0:00.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:04.1 | Here we go. |
| 0:08.1 | Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Flight Time Machine. I'm Andy Dawson. Pa-papa. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm Sam Nifty Delaney. Say what? |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome along. It's another episode of The Twits Odyssey. |
| 0:22.3 | We are, of course, working out. |
| 0:23.4 | We're gradually through Rural Dahl's classic book The Twits. |
| 0:26.9 | We set the scene quite early on, establishing that Rold Dahl is a bit of a cunt. |
| 0:32.4 | We're not sure about Quentin Blake, who did the illustrations. |
| 0:36.2 | We're on the fence about him. |
| 0:37.4 | I think we're giving him the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, because he's old, and his website kind of gives off the vibe that he just doesn't want to fucking engage anymore. So that's fair enough. I mean, you know, there'll be a top flight time machine website after we finish doing this podcast, after we've knocked this on the head, and we'll run by our sons. |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah, well, we're going to hand the podcast onto our sons, |
| 0:58.6 | aren't we? That's the plan, I think, eventually. |
| 1:00.7 | We'll hand it over them. |
| 1:01.7 | And of course, we'll retain a percentage of the income. |
| 1:06.7 | We both have daughters as well, |
| 1:08.1 | but before you write in saying, |
| 1:09.9 | why daughters involved, |
| 1:17.7 | it's because, frankly, our daughters are, have no interest in any of our activities. |
| 1:18.5 | Output. And would like to distance themselves as far as possible from any of them, which we understand and respect. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:26.6 | I mean, to be fair, my daughter is vaguely interested in doing a podcast because my son, I do one with my son called Beans on Toast. Oh, yeah. If you haven't heard it, check it out. As they say, we do that. And he's beginning to make a few quid a month from the adverts in it. Really? |
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