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Top Flight Time Machine

The Melchester Odyssey - Part 83

Top Flight Time Machine

Andy Dawson & Sam Delaney

Comedy, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Soccer

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Scanning magazines, trapping animals, getting your cat kidnapped by The Wailers, and Grace Jones hands over her knickers. (Rec: 31/12/20)


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0:00.0

Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past

0:12.4

it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

0:21.0

Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good travel.

0:51.0

And there's absolutely no adverts or brief but annoying messages like this that will get right on your tics.

1:21.0

We are approaching the very end of the book, The Best of Roy, The Rovers, the 1980s.

1:28.0

After that we move on to the issues that came out subsequently if you can get your hands on copies of them.

1:34.0

Good luck with that. We might actually be able to just scan and put them on our website.

1:40.0

Yeah, because I'm going to be scanning them sent to you anyway, so we can always put them there.

1:44.0

Yeah, there's some great websites like that. I did an article in the independent like,

1:50.0

ah, fucking quite a few years ago now about how there were like magazine archivists who just had set up word presses

1:59.0

where they just painstakingly scanned in their collection of magazines from when they were young.

2:05.0

So someone had done it with smash hits, someone had done it.

2:08.0

There was 90s ones where someone had done select, remember that? That was a good match.

2:13.0

Oh, really? Yeah, and someone else had done melody makers.

2:17.0

And I interviewed them all, but just about, you know, what drove them to do it and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

2:23.0

So it's a thing. It is a thing. And I sort of think of it as if people can be bothered doing it to service.

2:29.0

I don't know what the copyright issues are, but to be honest, most publishers are useless on this stuff. They're like...

2:37.0

You know, they've got... I think about these publishers, these magazine publishers, right? They've all crumbled now because the print business is gone.

2:45.0

But they've got fucking archives of original IP, like ideas, amazing fucking things.

2:53.0

I mean, we've talked loads about our love of magazines and comics, right?

2:57.0

And it can be reused in a million and one different fucking ways. But they're like,

3:03.0

no one's buying magazines anymore. Oh, well. Let's shut up shop.

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