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264: And the Shafter goes to...

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's another blockbusting, soon-to-be-award-winning instalment of Life on Planet Porky the podcast with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones.

Today you'll hear them discuss: summer sweat, which country Porky might head to when it's hot, Estonia, why paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be, Salman Rushdie, the Groucho club, Jerry Hall's divorce and what she might make from it, the death of the press, Sir Ralph Halpern, Stringfellow and the glamour model, Margaret Thatcher's roving eye, Lamont Dozier, the feud between Oasis and Blur, Reading signing an Eton student, footballer backgrounds, the next James Bond, Madonna turning 65, Dave Gilmour's housing debate, and Martin Lewis appearing to lose the plot. It's the podcast that won't waste any of your precious time, 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 edition, the latest chapter, the latest

0:26.8

rollicking adventure from life on planet pork.

0:30.2

You're with myself, the portmister, and of course, the rock chick writer extraordinaire, Ms.

0:35.9

Leslie and Jones.

0:37.4

Ms. Jones, how are we this fine day?

0:41.3

Steaming, Michael. Absolutely steaming. It's been yesterday. I mean, I've always had,

0:47.8

this is going to sound weird, I've always had a sweaty face. Oh, right, okay. And I've gone to

0:52.6

such lengths as ordering very expensive facial gel from

0:56.8

Australia, which I did a couple of years ago, which cost me a bloody fortune. Yeah. To slap this all

1:02.4

on before you put anything else on your face. This is guaranteed like an underarm deotrient to stop

1:08.6

your sweat. Yes. It bloody doesn't, I tell you. Nothing works. I think it's

1:13.2

one of your body's cooling mechanisms. Obviously, that's what sweating is about. But your face,

1:20.4

I mean, literally yesterday, this sweat was running down my face like a shower. Yeah, dear.

1:25.7

And my face was bright red. So my body was obviously

1:29.1

overheating. Yes. I have the same sort of problem. I've always had the problem with heat. Now,

1:34.4

I've done television three or four times in the last week or so. And then when you can't have a

1:38.8

television studio and you've got makeup all over your face, I'm powder and foundation cream and all that kind of stuff.

1:45.8

And you walk into the heat,

1:47.5

the minute you start perspiring,

1:48.9

it runs off your face and drips onto your shirt.

1:51.4

It's awful, you know.

1:53.3

So do you not have it all taken off before you leave the studio?

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