288: Dying to know
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Topics today include: using death to appreciate life, not knowing your own mortality, looking after the elderly, the trials and tribulations of Donald Trelford, Charlie Wilson, boring Buzz Aldrin, refusing to talk about the thing you're known for, the Columbo technique, The Beatles' rooftop anniversary, middle-aged Love Island, Rod Stewart's generosity, Ghislaine Maxwell, Gen Z's drinking habits, The Way We Were, pop music videos, scrapping the ultra low emissions zones and Sadiq Khan's uselessness. It's the podcast that doesn't charge you to enter, it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, you are listening to the latest chapter, the latest set of adventures, |
| 0:28.4 | the latest intrigue from life on planet Porky, with myself the Porkmeister, and of course, |
| 0:34.0 | the Rock Chick-Chic writer extraordinaire, Miss Leslie and Jones. And Miss Jones, how are we this fine day? |
| 0:43.3 | Absolutely brilliant, Mr. Perry. Thank you. Yes. I feel like I'm firing on all fours today. There have been quite a lot of deaths. |
| 0:50.8 | All fours, yeah. A lot of deaths lately, and I've got quite a few funerals coming up, unfortunately. |
| 0:57.3 | Oh, my. |
| 0:58.1 | I feel like it's given me a new lease of life, is what I'm trying to say. |
| 1:01.4 | The people around you are dropping like flies. |
| 1:04.0 | Not because of that, but it's woken me up to better make the most of it |
| 1:08.8 | because you never know how long you've got left. Well, no, I suppose there's something to be said for that. That's one of the big problems in life, |
| 1:13.7 | of course, isn't it? You know, what do we do with our resources for the rest of our life? |
| 1:18.8 | Because we don't know how long we're going to live, you know what I mean? |
| 1:22.2 | Funny enough, I've had meetings with my accountants in the last week or so, and it's very forward-looking, |
| 1:29.0 | you know, should the political situation change, how will that affect your money and all this |
| 1:33.7 | kind of stuff? It's very good. It's a great service, you know, and should we, you know, |
| 1:37.2 | put money in this or that or whatever. But then you think, I've only got a finite amount of money. What's going to happen if I live till I'm 92? |
| 1:45.2 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:45.9 | And that worries me a bit. |
| 1:46.9 | I don't know about you. |
| 1:48.4 | I had this very conversation with a friend of mine on Sunday over lunch. |
| 1:52.3 | She's a hedge fund manager. |
| 1:53.7 | Oh, right. |
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