The Melchester Odyssey - Part 76
Top Flight Time Machine
Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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A 1960s flashback, and Roy’s comeback is halted by talk of music centres, catalogues and buying old stuff that we don’t need. (Rec: 12/11/20)
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| 0:43.1 | This is Toplight Time Machine, I am Andy Dawson, pow pow pow. I am Sam Nifty Delaney, so well. |
| 0:47.7 | It's the Melchester Odyssey again, we're following Roy the Rovers of the 1980s, |
| 0:51.6 | I think we're in early 1982 from the book The Best of Roy the Rovers, the 1980s, get one if you |
| 0:57.2 | haven't got one before, now it is fucking brilliant, even if you've never listened to all these |
| 1:01.6 | episodes that we've done at a great book. We are up to what just happened, let's find out |
| 1:08.4 | because it tells us that we don't like tangents. What's that you've got on your hand, Sam? |
| 1:16.1 | I've got the 1960s, Roy the Rovers, but just to say as people know that, you know, |
| 1:23.1 | we've me and Leno, simultaneously reading Roy the Rovers, but we get through them at a max |
| 1:27.4 | faster rate than you and I do. So we did the 80s a while ago, then we did the 70s, which is great, |
| 1:34.1 | we're currently on the 60s, which is basically it gets progressively matter the further back in time |
| 1:39.4 | you go and as I've discussed before, it's very violent, like Roy almost always punches someone |
| 1:45.8 | every week, but I nearly texted you a photo of this last night because as introductions, |
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| 1:58.1 | gives you a recap. As they as recaps go, this is really strong and I suppose I'm just saying it now |
| 2:06.2 | because it's on my mind, but also because this is a taste of what's to come because fear not |
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