121: Blood, sweat and tears

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3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's a hot and sticky episode of Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones. Today's mixture of perspiration and inspiration includes: Simon Cowell's near tragic fall and other life-changing accidents, White rhinos, LaToya Jackson, Heatwave the band, Belarus, the latest sordid revelations from the new book on Jimi Hendrix, the outrageously hot weather, photographer Dave Parker, Lando Norris and the skill of young Formula One drivers, missing the sound of the office, secretaries and their 'typing skills', song publishing, Brian Epstein's management, Julie Burchill, the 'stars' of TOWIE and whether they deserve their success, and how to enjoy a cold shower. You'll need one once you've finished listening to this episode!!

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky, the latest edition of, and of course I'm delighted to say in this huge wave in which I'm melting that the person providing all the energy in this one will be a rock chick writer extraordinaire,
0:39.5	Ms. Leslie Ann Jones.
0:41.5	Hi, good, good, no.
0:43.2	Comey, va. You're a bit hot down your end, I think.
0:45.6	Yeah, a bit hot, yeah.
0:46.7	I might have to think about getting some oxygen in or something
0:48.9	because the air is very thin.
0:50.9	I have to say, you know,
0:52.0	normally a heat like this only lasted a day or two,
0:54.9	but this is going to be like five days. I'm just waiting for the wonderful sound of rain,
0:59.1	pitter-pattering on my V-Lux windows to indicate the thunderstorm that will bring it all to an end.
1:05.5	Talking about thunderstorms, not exactly a thunderstorm, but a thunderbolt seems to have
1:10.4	happened to Mr.
1:12.3	Shobers himself, Simon Cowell. What's he been up to? Well, I think he's fallen off his brand new
1:18.3	electric bike in L.A., hasn't he? Backwards. He was trying to do a wheelie. Oh, what an idiot.
1:23.9	At his age. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So you bring the handlebars up, you know, to try and
1:27.7	impress those around you. I'm not saying it's just Simon Cowler does this, everybody does it.
1:32.8	It's an electric... Have you done it? No, I've never done it, no. I couldn't do that to save my life.
1:39.0	But the thing is, these electric bikes are very heavy because they carry a battery, you know, along the crossbar,
1:44.8	so to get you going. And I'm told by somebody who knows these things that once you
1:50.1	miss the point of balance on an electric bike, whack, you know, bang, you go straight back over
1:56.2	on your head. And this isn't the first time this has happened. He's injured his back,
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