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This is Top Flight Time Machine, I am Andy Dawson Papa about. I'm Simon Nifty Delaney,

Simon. It's the beginning of a brand new odyssey. We've got no idea where this is going to go,

how long it's going to last for, even whether it'll be any fucking good or not. But what we're doing

now is the Twits, which of course is the classic book written by Roald Dal. Let's get it

at the way early on. Early on Roald Dal was a terrible terrible anti-Semite and the fact that his

books are still red and celebrated these days makes me feel a little bit icky. But there we are.

The fact that two men self-professed, self-professed progressive liberals would be celebrating this book

on their wildly popular podcast. By extension probably leading to a small spike in sales which

would contribute more money to the estate of Roald Dal. The Dal Foundation. Yeah. The Dal Foundation.

In a way, yeah, probably we've made a mistake, but here we are now. Bullocks.

One minute, 15 seconds in and we've realised this has been a terrible decision. Well, let's just use

this as an opportunity to say racism's wrong. Anti-Semitism is pathetic and wrong. Don't do it.

And also, this is a new line of mine. Anyone who suspect does do it completely cut them out of

your life. That's that's my new zero tolerance policy with racists, anti-Semites or just now it's

just like, you know what, we can't afford to give an inch anymore. So just it, you'll very rarely

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