171: Acceptable in the 80s

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones come dashing through the snow to bring you another look at Life on Planet Porky.

Discussion points include: Braving the elements, garden gnomes, historical abuse cases, Jimmy Tarbuck and his esteemed classmates, favoured regional accents, Rick Astley, Mike Batt and his new musical, spending your own money on a business venture, deciding on their favourite decade, finishing your career by delivering newspapers, entertaining Paul Gascoigne, Bryan Ferry, having multiple children of the same sex, Lily Collins and Emily in Paris, the French economy and Wellington boots. Fear not, it may be slushy outside, but Planet Porky is with you whatever the weather!

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

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest chapter, the latest edition, the latest
0:27.1	episode of life on planet Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, with the
0:33.9	rock chick writer extraordinaire, Ms. Leslie Ann Jones.
0:39.1	And Leslie Ann, I have to say, if people think that Planet Porky is a paradise,
0:43.7	look out of the windows this morning, it's a frozen Arctic waste.
0:49.0	It's like the bleak midwinter, isn't it?
0:50.9	I said to one of the kids yesterday.
0:52.9	The bleak midwinter, isn't it? It's, I said to one of the kids yesterday. Even the bleak midwinter, many years.
0:59.0	You like that, do you?
1:00.0	It's something like that, yeah.
1:02.1	Don't give up your day job.
1:03.4	That's great, no, it's very Christmassy, is what I was about to say.
1:08.5	And we had a couple of candles lit, you know, those nice Christmassy-scented candles that you kind of buy and then don't use up.
1:16.0	So we decided to light them all yesterday.
1:17.9	And it just felt like Christmas again.
1:19.9	Yeah, well, it felt more like Christmas, really.
1:21.8	This is why I'm so determined to eventually move to the north of England. I don't know how many years left I've got on this planet,
1:27.9	but I want to spend the last two battling through snowdrifts in Northumberland,
1:31.7	you know, to rescue stranded sheep and all that kind of stuff,
1:34.5	because I love this weather.
1:36.2	And the landscape is beautiful.
1:38.3	Have you, I don't know if you've addressed your Twitter account this morning,
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