Okay, folks, you are listening to Life on Planet Porky, and I'm delighted to say this is the first life on planet Porky outside of the heatwave.

I wasn't sure how many more I was going to be able to do.

And of course, I want to offer another big welcome

to the Queen of Cool, rock, shick, writer extraordinaire, Leslie Ann Jones, Leslie Ann,

I hope you're as relieved as I am that the heat wave has now gone away. Oh, do you know,

I thought I was going to die, actually. I really did. I was to the point of despair,

and I was doing that old trick of,

you know when Maltaume wrote the Christmas song,

the chestnuts roasting on an open fire,

coming up with all the lines to try and cool yourself down

because it was just so unbearable.

Really?

What was that?

Yeah, that's how that song came about.

They were in California, he and a friend,

sitting around the pool, sweltering and dying,

and just flinging lines at each other about Christmassy and wintry-type things

to try and cool themselves down, and that's how the song was born.

Really?

Yeah.

That awful song,

Chessner, Tw Twins the baking fire.

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