284: Striking the right chord
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Topics include: New Year greetings, Porky learning to play the guitar, Great British rock musicians, a knighthood for Brian May, ABBA, the passing of a Pope, Catholicism, an unexpected career change for a former nun, serialisation rights, Pele's friendship with LAJ's dad, burst pipes, John Paul Jones, the real reason John and Yoko went to New York, session musicians featuring on legendary albums, and Victoria Principal.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, welcome to the first chapter, the first report, the first exciting episode of |
| 0:28.9 | 2023 on Planet Porky, with myself the portmister, and of course, the rochick writer extraordinaire, |
| 0:37.3 | Ms. Leslie and Jones. |
| 0:39.1 | Miss Jones, first thing I have to say to you is Happy New Year, |
| 0:42.2 | but I do have this strict rule that if anybody says Happy New Year to me after midday on New Year's Day, |
| 0:49.7 | I usually feel like punching them in the face. |
| 0:52.1 | As far as I'm concerned, oh yes, absolutely. |
| 0:54.0 | As far as I'm concerned, oh yes, absolutely. |
| 0:59.3 | As far as I'm concerned, when the midnight bell has struck, I went to the new year, |
| 1:00.2 | then just get on with it. |
| 1:04.2 | Don't go around telling everybody you want them to have a happy new year. |
| 1:08.9 | When I worked on the Chester Chronicle, that was my first job in newspapers, as a young reporter on the weekly newspaper of my hometown. |
| 1:11.9 | The editor was a guy called Bob Somebody. |
| 1:15.0 | I can't remember his surname, but he was a former Spitfire pilot from the Second World War, |
| 1:20.3 | so he was literally a war hero, you know. |
| 1:22.5 | And he came round on the 21st of January and started wishing us all a happy new year and that was the |
| 1:28.2 | first indication that he was starting to suffer from dementia oh that's sad that's very sad but |
| 1:34.2 | I've always had a thing that the first time I communicate with somebody in the new year even if |
| 1:41.0 | it's halfway through January I'll say happy new year to them So I'm completely the opposite from you. Or you get an email from somebody, |
| 1:48.9 | you know, it might be nearly February, but it's the first time you've spoken. I'll still say it back. |
| 1:54.8 | Yeah. But yeah, horses for courses. No, absolutely. I just think, right, a new year is a new opportunity. Let's get on with things. Let's do all the things that, you know, you're going to do last year. But now, I haven't got time to go around wishing people happy new year. Let's just get on with it. Talking of which I've already revealed to yourself and a few other people actually on a couple of shows I've done in the last couple of days. But my New Year's ambition, |
| 2:19.4 | New Year's, ambition, ambition for New Year, resolution I'm talking about, of course, is that I'm going |
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