256: You say goodbye and I say hello...sailor

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ahoy there! Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are ready to set sail on the stormy seas of Planet Porky once again so batten down the hatches.

Topics today include: The recent heatwave, Rod Temperton and his amazing array of hits, Paul McCartney turning 80, a new memoir from George Harrison's widow, severe hay fever, work commitments altering your personal life, Washington DC, the challenging life of a sailor, tracking town bereaved families before the internet, England's shocking defeat to Hungary, the Qatar World Cup, Jim Lea of Slade, Jeff Beck, why Amber Heard is walking a legal tightrope, the Suzy Lamplugh case, the Yorkshire Shepherdess, Sam Fox defending Page 3, the closing of one of Princess Diana's favourite restaurants, and Nancy Dell'Olio. It's the podcast that requires all hands on deck, it's Life on 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 life on planet Porky and to the latest exciting chapter of what goes on on planet Porky.
0:30.8	Lots going on at the moment, actually, and particularly as it's getting so very hot, I might have to go into hibernation.
0:37.9	But of course, it's myself, the Portmeister,
0:40.1	and the rock chick writer extraordinaire.
0:42.4	Ms. Lesley and Jones.
0:44.0	Miss Jones, how are you this fine moment?
0:48.3	Cool, calm and collected, I think, would be the description today.
0:51.9	Not cooler than me.
0:53.8	I'm going to sing you a song, okay?
0:56.1	Go on.
0:56.4	Boogie nights ain't no doubt.
0:58.3	We are here to party.
1:00.4	Boogie nights, come on now.
1:02.4	Got to get it started.
1:04.5	Dance with the boogie get high.
1:07.6	Because boogie nights are always the best in town. does that song um rattle a memory or two in your
1:15.1	head definitely does yeah that's what that wasn't bad actually mike um yeah that's the song by a band called
1:22.6	heatway exactly and that's why i'm singing from back in 1977, it was a massive funky disco hit.
1:28.7	It was. I was king of the discos in Chester then. Fully enough, the disco, I was called Kings. The King's Disco in Chester. I strolled the floor there like John Travolta, you know what I mean? And that was one of the, you know, iconic hits of the year and of that era of the disco, the, you know, the shining ball spinning above the dance floor and all that kind of stuff.
1:51.1	So it brought back great memories.
1:52.6	But the reason I'm singing it is because we're about to enter a heat wave.
1:57.1	And it's going to, it's going to completely knack at me.
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