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Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. This is Top Light

we go. This is it.

This is Top Flag Machine, I am Andy Lawson, Pow Po, Pow! I'm saying Delaney, so what?

This is episode 40.

Episode 40 of the Melchester Odyssey. I'd be happy if it never ended. I'm not

bored at all. I can't get enough of this. I dread the day when we complete

the second volume we're going to go through which is Roy the Rovers 70s.

Yeah but don't worry Sam because as I've said here I've been accumulating actual issues.

I just want to tell me.

I think that once we end and have done every Roy the Rovers comic strip

we start again from the beginning because we look because of the way in which we approach our material on this

podcast we will always have something different to say because it's a lot of

things on what what mood we're in and what's been going on in our

worlds that week a lot of it has no relation whatsoever to Roy at the Rovers anyway so

I could see us just carrying this on and on and on until we die until we're very very old men.

Yeah. Which one of us do you think is going to die first some? Really good question

Well I think I'm slightly healthier than you but I am

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