001: The Tombola of Tory Talent

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Political commentator Marina Purkiss and broadcaster Jemma Forte delve into the week in tweets. The Trawl doomscrolls Twitter so you don’t have to. Each week our hosts discuss who in politics has digitally soiled themselves and who has been excellent in no more than 280 characters. Following hot on the hells of the pilot episode, Episode 1 was recorded on Sunday 17th July 2022 during the wearying heights of the Conservative Party leadership election amidst record temperatures in the UK. You can now subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. RSS feed: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/997785.rss Join our email list: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thetrawl.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes.
0:04.0	Tax Act is going to name some now.
0:07.0	Sitting in traffic.
0:08.0	Folding a fitted bed sheet.
0:11.0	Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team.
0:14.0	Digging a hole.
0:16.0	Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole.
0:19.0	Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't
0:22.6	make taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to The Trawl, the show where we scroll through Twitter so you don't have to.
0:40.1	I'm Gemma Forte.
0:41.4	And I'm Marina Perkis.
0:43.0	This week, the tweets we've trawled are pretty much all of a certain flavour because there's only been one topic dominating the news, Twitter and frankly my nightmares.
0:53.0	But first, Gemma, how's your week been? Do you know what? It's been a lot
0:56.5	better. The last time we recorded, I had the plague, the dreaded COVID. I was basically Tom Hanks
1:01.1	in Castaway. It had reached that point. My kids had been dispatched to my ex-husband for the whole
1:07.1	duration, so I was trying to parent a little bit by FaceTime, which was not that effective. And then life got a bit better because I was able to go back to work.
1:16.1	So, yeah, that was good back to a bit of Jeremy Vine and, oh, and went to Ian Dale's 60th as well.
1:21.9	You did, you Starmingler.
1:24.1	Should I do some name drop clunking?
1:25.9	Go for it.
1:26.9	It was like the who's who of media.
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