004: Tory clowns, the UK frowns, and a lorra Brown
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
“Perhaps a nice contrast to nuclear annihilation…”
Jemma ‘is back from beefa’ Forte and Marina ‘has the builders in’ Purkiss, once again scroll through Twitter, so you don’t have to.
In the fourth episode of the pod they discuss former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s comments on the UK’s economic crisis, ponder little Englander Liz Truss’ latest remarks about the Welsh & Scottish leaders, and there’s your weekly dose of trade union heart throb Mick Lynch.
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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 make |
| 0:22.9 | taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with. |
| 0:33.8 | Hello, and welcome to The Trawl, the show where we scroll through Twitter, so you don't have to. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:45.0 | And I'm Marina Perkis, and this week's Troll is a belter. |
| 0:49.5 | We have got leadership contest lows, U-turns, toys being thrown out of Johnson cultist prams, all sorts. |
| 0:57.5 | But first of all, Jeba! You are back! How was Ibiza? And did you manage to keep up to date in the |
| 1:03.4 | political shit show in between bouts of Big Fish, Little Fish, All Night Raving? |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, I kind of did. I mean, Ibitha is just fun, and I took my teenagers, |
| 1:13.2 | and I was with my friend and her kids as well, |
| 1:16.2 | and yeah, I felt so lucky to have a break. |
| 1:18.7 | I have to say, I managed to always, you know, |
| 1:21.2 | when you have a holiday, it's like, by the time I arrive, |
| 1:23.4 | I really need a holiday. |
| 1:24.7 | I don't know what it is about the buildup. So it reminds of like a strung out Neanderthal. |
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