242: Down but not out
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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With topics including: the frustration of modern technology when it goes wrong, LAJs dongle, Kurt Zouma kicking his pet cat and what his punishment should be, Porky's traumatic week on the street, losing your glasses, Andy Ross and the Britpop revolution, the wonders of Iceland, why the reputation of football is in the gutter, Jack Grealish's career own goal, the influence of agents, McGuinness Flint, Belfast, the legendary Europa Hotel, Bamber Gascoigne, the Wolseley restaurant, and how the Ivy is in danger of having its reputation tarnished. It's the gourmet podcast that never serves up anything less than the best, it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 1:00.6 | And I think it's fair to say with the rochick writer, Miss Jones, with me now, |
| 1:05.1 | that frustrations are building high amongst those who are trying to grapple with the amazing technology one has to get through |
| 1:13.2 | in one's life today just to be able to even switch on your television. You've had a frustrating |
| 1:18.8 | weakness, Jones, but so have I. Go on, you start. Well, you won't believe this, but in the old days, |
| 1:26.7 | when I haven't moved to House Lady, but I know you have, we'll come on to that in a minute, okay, but in the old days, when I haven't moved house lady, but I know you have. |
| 1:29.4 | We'll come on to that in a minute, okay? |
| 1:30.8 | But in the old days, when you moved house, you just simply sent back the rented television that you had in your home. |
| 1:37.4 | Because do you remember when we were growing up in Fleet Street and all that? |
| 1:40.3 | People rented televisions from places like Rediffusion and Grenada and all this kind of |
| 1:44.9 | stuff. And the bloke came around. It's such a weird thought now. Yeah, it's such a weird idea that now, |
| 1:49.8 | isn't it? It is such a weird idea. And a bloke would come around in his van and he'd take the |
| 1:54.4 | telly, which was usually in a wooden casing, out of the back of the van, he'd bring it into your house and he'd put it on a table and he'd |
| 2:00.8 | plug it in and then there was an aerial socket, you know, which connected you to the aerial |
| 2:05.7 | which was on the roof of your house and you were away, no problem at all. But the last time, |
| 2:10.8 | last couple of times I've had new TVs installed in either of my homes, the procedure is now so blinking complicated because there are no |
| 2:21.4 | aerials anymore. You've got to be linked to a satellite box or a satellite dish or something like that. |
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