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286: Paying respects

Planet Porky

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It's an icy cold edition of Life on Planet Porky, but never fear - Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones are here to keep you warm!

Topics on today's episode include: freezing temperatures, ABBA, marrying your stalker, Jill Dando, disgusting behaviour in the Met, policing in Britain, George Cohen, fearing death, a new love for a media tycoon, Lisa Marie Presley's sad passing, Jeff Beck, overpriced electric cars, Mick Taylor, Kathmandu, safety standards on aircraft, the origins of the Beatles' Abbey Road, Gina Lollobrigida, and the increasingly volatile situation in the boardroom at Everton. It's the podcast that's supercharged by its own means, 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 great adventure,

0:27.9

on life on planet Porky, and a very cold one, I have to say.

0:32.8

Miss Jones, I have got my overcoat back on.

0:36.1

I am treading on crispy grass as I walk across the

0:41.0

north downs. It's my sort of weather. Do you know, I went to get in my car this morning. I couldn't

0:47.2

get the boot open. It was frozen, frozen, closed. And then I got in the car and, you know, you sit

0:53.2

there trying to clear everything and stuff. And went, reached for my bottle of water then I got in the car and, you know, you sit there trying to clear everything and stuff.

0:55.4

And went, reached for my bottle of water that I keep in the car and went to take a little drink from it.

1:01.2

And the water was frozen in the bottle.

1:03.7

My God, inside the car.

1:05.9

Inside the car. It was that cold this morning.

1:08.7

Do you know what? I remember years ago when I got my first Voxal Viva,

1:12.7

when you woke up on mornings like this morning,

1:15.3

you were terrified that your engine had frozen up.

1:19.4

In those days, if you didn't put what's called anti-freeze...

1:23.8

That they used to put in wine at one point, didn't they? Yes, that's right, yeah. Unless you'd put anti-freeze that they used to put in wine at one point, didn't they?

1:28.3

Yes, that's right, yeah. Unless you'd put anti-freeze into your radiator around about November,

1:35.0

and then when it came to sort of December, January, and it was freezing gold,

1:39.2

you literally, your engine would freeze up and it would just wreck your engine, you know.

1:43.8

So I was always very, very

1:46.0

careful about the antifreeze. Of course, these days, certainly in my car, I can't even get to the

1:51.5

engine now. I don't know about you. If you ever lift the bonnet or the hood, as they call it,

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