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128: Servicing the old boiler

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones guide you through the latest topics including: getting on with life, Roger Taylor (and the name Roger), Bohemian Rhapsody vs. The Bible, the Bay City Rollers, wearing expensive jewellery, Harry and Meghan's whopping Netflix deal, dreaming that you're someone else, remembering Ian Royce, receiving and enjoying flowers, cannabis farms, Van Morrison, the crumbling BBC empire, Danny Baker's subscription service, Ready Steady Go, being married but not cohabiting, 'fallen women', the Trump family rivalry, the crazy life of Charlie Sheen, and ridiculous baby names. Meanwhile LAJ is rudely interrupted when Porky gets a visitor. It's the podcast that's full of energy, it's Life on Planet Porky!  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, welcome to the latest edition, the latest episode, the latest great chapter of life on Planet Porky.

0:29.6

And of course, Planet Porker would be nothing without the rock chick writer extraordinaire.

0:35.9

Ms. Leslie Ann Jones, who is with me now? Leslie Ann, how goes it?

0:40.4

Not bad, Michael, thank you. Things seem to be not getting back to normal exactly, do they? But there's more rhythm going on in life, I think.

0:49.6

Yeah, there is more rhythm going on. I agree. I was in the city yesterday, city of London. I got a train home

0:54.7

about sort of rush hour time, about 6.6.30. And it was, I would say it was two-thirds packed,

1:02.5

you know, like a sort of normal commuter train. I was very heartened. Everybody had a mask on

1:06.4

and all that. But the main area of despair is the city of London itself, the financial district.

1:12.1

It is absolutely empty. And that's going to be the last to come back as people are now so

1:16.3

molly-coddled in staying at home. But, you know, that's for another day. Now, I found out

1:21.0

something last night, Leslie Ann, because of my ability to pick up on things, that the guy who runs the board that, you know, was involved

1:31.4

in the big row about downgrading, GCSEs and A-Lves and all that, I think the board's called

1:36.9

off-quall, right, or something like that, the guy who runs it, it's called Roger Taylor.

1:42.3

And, of course, I thought, Roger Taylor, he's a drummer as well.

1:45.8

And then I found out he's not only a drummer, not only was the drummer in Duran Duran.

1:50.6

He was also the drummer in a group you know so much about, and that is Queen.

1:55.8

That's a remarkable coincidence, isn't it?

1:57.7

Two rock star drummer.

1:59.5

It's quite a common name, isn't it? I mean, Roger is a name

2:02.4

that's gone out of fashion. I don't know any Rogers apart from those two guys, do you? Well, we know

2:07.7

a few unfashionable Rogers, but we'll get that to ourselves. We know one in particular, but I don't

2:14.0

meet children these days called Roger. I think it's one of those names that has slipped off the radar, isn't it?

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