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Planet Porky

258: A thing of the past

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Ok folks! Settle in as Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones publish their latest work - an enthralling episode of Planet Porky the podcast!

Today's topics include: LAJ's book, how AI may replace the author, lending people money, Steve Wright no longer being 'in the afternoon', Wogan House, mistaken identity, Porky's latest Twitter troll turmoil, why books are published at this time of year, Barbara Charone, the bitterness of Kenny Goss, being caught at Wimbledon with someone you shouldn't, Nick Kyrgios, female columnists sniping at other women, whether the American Empire is crumbling, and 100 year mortgages. It's the podcast that always looks after its friends, it's Life on Planet Porky.   

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 series of adventures from life on planet

0:28.8

Porky with myself, Porky, and of course, rock chick writer extraordinaire.

0:34.5

This Leslie and Jones, Miss Jones, how are we this fine day? Yeah, steaming, Mike.

0:40.8

It's all hotting up, isn't it? Well, when you say it's hotting up, I mean, we record in the early

0:45.8

hours of the morning, obviously, not the early hour, sorry, very early in the morning when it's still

0:49.8

quite cool and the breeze sort of wafts him from my roof garden and it's nice and gentle. I don't want it

0:56.3

to get hot at lunchtime today. I've got to go out. I will have to put a suit on. That to me is a

1:01.8

nightmare. Now, Miss Jones, since we last put words together on this podcast, life on planet Porky,

1:08.1

you've been a bit of a star on TV. I saw you over the weekend.

1:11.7

I'll have to say how impressed I was at the way you delivered all the info and sold your latest book.

1:19.0

The, I forgot what it was called, The Stone Age.

1:23.1

Well, that's very kind of you, Michael.

1:25.4

This was on Mark Dolan's show on G.B. News, on which you are no stranger.

1:30.8

Yes, well.

1:32.0

He's a very generous interviewer.

1:34.3

Oh, he's a lovely guy, Mark, lovely guy.

1:36.3

I've known Mark for years, worked in radio together, okay.

1:39.4

And not many people know that in addition to being a broadcaster on radio and TV, although mostly

1:46.6

TV these days, he's also a stand-up comedian. And to me, the two hardest jobs in the world

1:53.7

are being a stand-up comedian or a heavyweight boxer. The heavy-weight boxer is all alone

1:58.4

when he steps into that ring and he's facing Mike Tyson and a stand-up comedian is all alone when he goes out onto that stage and he's got a baying

2:05.7

crowd of fans. In fact, I think you've been to one of my one-man shows haven't you, Miss Jones?

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