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170: Putting us on the map

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Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On the latest family-friendly edition of Planet Porky the podcast, Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones discuss: Captain Sir Tom Moore, Porky's jab quest, the risks of taking public transport during the pandemic, Buddy Holly's short life, the Asher family, songs to make you feel better, Freddie Mercury's theatre statue, Fulham, David Hamilton's views on radio, sleeping patterns during lockdown, being a news junkie, reopening the pubs, the Isle of Man, Danny Cipriani, geographical ignorance, and countries that change their name. Thankfully, everybody knows where Planet Porky is!  

Follow the show on Twitter: @PlanetPorky or Mike is: @MikeParry8 while you can find Lesley-Ann: @LAJwriter.

Or you can email us questions or comments to: [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you! 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, folks, welcome to the latest chapter, the latest edition, the latest thrilling episode,

0:27.6

I should say, of life on planet Porky, with myself, Portmeister, and of course, the rock chick

0:34.6

writer extraordinaire, Ms Miss Leslie and Jones.

0:38.9

And Leslie, Anna, I think I have to say immediately,

0:40.9

it's the first chance we've had to come to air

0:43.0

since a national tragedy occurred.

0:46.9

And that is the death of Captain Tom,

0:49.4

somewhat a somber start,

0:51.2

but a man to whom I feel we both would like to pay tribute.

0:55.5

Absolutely. I was very sad about it, actually. I shed a few tears over this. I know he was

1:01.0

100 years old. Yes, I did. I don't cry very often, but this did move me. Yeah, he was 100. Yes,

1:08.0

he was on well. He was battling prostate cancer. He had pneumonia,

1:12.9

so they weren't able to vaccinate him against COVID. What happened is that he became the first

1:18.9

COVID martyr because he literally gave his life for this cause. So all the deniers out there who are

1:25.3

still saying, COVID doesn't exist, you know, I'm not

1:28.2

having the vaccination. If you can't do it for yourself, do it for him in tribute. That's

1:34.0

what I would say. Yes. But even so, you've still got the sick-minded people who go on to social

1:39.5

media and start, you know, berating him and slagging him off. And even one churchman who said, oh, he's just a sign of white supremacy,

1:49.9

which I thought was a shocking and bloody awful thing for anybody who wears a dog collar

1:55.0

and is a man of the church to get involved in.

1:57.3

You know, most of the world not only has a great affection for Captain Tom,

2:02.9

but believes he did an awful lot of good for an awful lot of people. Yes, he did. And I think

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