108: Hot and bothered

Planet Porky

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3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's time for the latest look at Life on Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones. Today they discuss: the hottest day of the year, pubs reopening, the National Enquirer, nepotism, the brilliance of the Bee Gees, Segways (via a segue), Steve Bing, paradise syndrome, George Michael, how James Blunt stacks up to the artists of yesteryear, the science behind great music, Tumbling Dice, behavioural scientists, criminal profiling and loads more. Perfect listening for a hot summer's day!

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0:00.0	Good morning, folks, You are listening once again.
0:25.0	I say good morning, good morning, good evening or good afternoon, whichever those three parts of the day you're at.
0:31.1	This is Life on Planet Porky. I'm the Porkmeister. And L.A.J, I tell you, it's going to be a bad day for me. It's the hottest day of the year
0:40.8	coming up, right? Luckily, we're in the early part of the day. I insist on that because my brain
0:45.9	fries and I can't work when we get towards midday. How are you going to survive this boiling day?
0:51.6	Well, what are we looking at? 33 degrees, did I hear?
0:54.8	Yes.
0:55.2	Wow.
0:55.8	Well, it's going to be frequent cold showers and changes of clothes, isn't it?
0:59.6	All the way long.
1:00.6	I agree.
1:01.3	I agree.
1:02.2	I can't bear it.
1:03.2	I break out in sort of boils, if you see what I mean, which sounds horrible, but it's not
1:08.9	that horrible.
1:09.5	But the sunlight affects my skin. That's how badly tainted I am by sunrise. So, for instance, I have to wear a
1:16.9	hat. If I go out, because my hair is stunning, if I go out without a hat on, my head bubbles,
1:22.1	you know, literally like that. But anyway, look, there is one advantage of this day, and that is that when it's hot like this,
1:28.5	I can open all the doors out into the garden, all that, and I wander around without a shirt on.
1:32.6	However, because I'm a gentleman, and I'm sitting in front of a screen now in self-isolation in my own studio at home,
1:38.5	I've put my shirt back on just in case the camera suddenly burst into life and you are subjected to a view of the
1:46.9	porkmeister torso in its in its uncovered state something too horrible to bear well i'm not going to go
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