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279: Blowback, sack and crack

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Another episode of Life on Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones has been fired into orbit!

Topics today include: The Qatar World Cup, Iranian protests, England's good start, Cliff Jones, tournament boycott threats, Sven-Goran Eriksson and his various conquests, egg whites, Noddy Holder, ageing prematurely, the profligacy of the NHS, perms, sports stars singing, whether you can replace the company of a human with a life-size bear, Dennis Nilsen, Princess Anne's brilliance, gaslights, Smith & Jones, dull Royals, and hippy crack. It's the podcast that would never put anything it shouldn't up its nose, 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, you're listening to the latest chapter, the latest adventure, the latest adventure.

0:26.4

The latest in a list of unmistakable and unmissable happenings are life on planet Porky, with myself the portmeister, andister and of course rock chick writer extraordinaire

0:38.9

Ms Leslie and Jones and Miss Jones is only one place to start now and probably will be for the

0:46.7

next couple of weeks on Planet Porky and that is getting our telescope up and focusing from Planet

0:53.2

Porky on Qatar where the World Cup is taking place,

0:56.8

because we are only a day after England's fantastic 6-2 victory to open the tournament

1:03.5

and your fellow countrymen a few hours later grabbing a late equaliser against USA.

1:09.2

It's all going so well so far.

1:12.5

Except for the fact that we shouldn't be there.

1:15.8

Well, I'm afraid that's a different argument now. I had all that debate. In fact, I was drafted

1:22.7

onto GMB, Good Morning Britain, to talk about the state of mind of the footballers and, you know,

1:29.5

including the Iranian footballers that England played, who, by the way, turned out to be very

1:35.9

brave young men because they refused to sing their own national anthem in protest.

1:40.0

I saw that. I have to say I have huge admiration for them for that, but I hope they don't get beheaded when they go home.

1:45.4

I doubt if they'll go home now. What they will probably do is they will probably, you know, they've got the world's admiration for standing up to the nasty, brutal Iranian regime.

1:54.1

And I would imagine now they will seek political asylum somewhere like America or something like that.

1:58.7

They're good footballers. They can earn their living. You see what I mean? Yeah. And certainly that's what I would do. I wouldn't go back to Iran

2:04.9

now if I'd taken part in that protest. It's tough to leave your families and your childhood behind,

2:12.7

isn't it? It is. But, you know, people are experiencing this sort of thing. They could well have

2:17.4

got their families out by now, you see what I mean?

2:19.3

Because certainly you're absolutely right.

2:21.5

If you suddenly upset Iran and don't go back to Iran, they do pick on your family.

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