A couple of old guys were probably discussing about how they did things in the old days without the fancy new contraptions.
Just read this on a site called American Songwriter concerning who wrote The Twist ...In 2014, his former Midnighters bandmate, Lawson Smith, said that The Gospel Consolaters’ Nathaniel Bills first wrote the song. Then Bills, according to Smith, asked the band The Spaniels to record it. But Ballard “stole” the song and claimed he penned the tune.