173: The gift of the jab

Planet Porky

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🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones have returned to Planet Porky in buoyant mood after they each received their first dose of the COVID vaccine. On this episode they outline their experiences before, during and afterwards.

Also on today's edition they discuss: the right time to open the pubs again, Mike Batt, Kevin Keegan, Mary Quant, wearing makeup after lockdown, Ghislaine Maxwell's disturbing upbringing, Jo Wood, the stigma of once being married to someone very famous, Summer Monteys-Fullam, the perils of misplacing your bank card, Peters Gabriel and Hook, how the different sexes approach dating apps, Porky's penchant for the pretty, Seymour Topping, American reporters, and the challenges for photographers in a time without the internet. It's Planet Porky!

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, welcome to the latest episode, the latest chapter, the latest scintillating revelatory story from Life on Pilot Porky with myself the Portmeister and of course the irresistibly a rock chick extraordinaire writer,
0:42.0	Miss Lesbian Jones. Lesiane, how are you?
0:44.5	I'm liking irresistibly. That'll do me.
0:47.0	Yeah, well, I couldn't work out to fit that into the sentence, so I just left it irresistibly.
0:52.3	It's actually Tuesday morning, isn't it? I've lost a day.
0:54.9	Yes, absolutely.
0:56.1	But irresistibly, because Ms. Jones,
0:59.0	the day when we can get round a table of heaving Thai food
1:03.7	and bottles of white and red wine,
1:08.0	followed up by, well, preceded by gin and tonics, followed up by brandies.
1:13.4	The day is coming ever closer.
1:14.8	And why is the day coming ever closer, Miss Jones?
1:16.7	You missed out the champagne.
1:18.4	We have both had our first COVID vaccination.
1:22.2	Isn't that amazing?
1:23.2	Absolutely fantastic.
1:24.8	I think to put it into perspective, it means that for three weeks anyway,
1:29.6	you've got to be extra careful because that's the year immunity is building up, okay?
1:33.2	And then, and then, and then we get the second vaccination after 12 weeks.
1:37.9	I think once you and I've both had the second vaccination, I think we can't harm each other
1:42.5	anymore, can we?
1:44.0	They seem to be changing their variation on that week by week.
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