100 Bombs in 10 Minutes & Still No Backbone: Plus Hegseth & Bondi
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It’s been one of those weeks where, every time you think it can’t escalate further… it absolutely does.
Jemma and Marina mull over the ceasefire which lasted all of five minutes due to Israel bombing Lebanon and vent their frustration at Starmer and Cooper who haven't yet condemned the atrocities.
Plus: firings, firings, more firings. Pam Bondi has gone and so have some of the most senior generals in the US army. They discuss the subsequent appointments, and examine the kind of political logic that only works if no one asks questions.
It’s messy, it’s infuriating, and yet there are still some moments of levity.
The Trawl ladies have worked out how to reply to a simple 'how are you?' It's 'All things considered?… fine.'
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| 0:00.0 | We negotiate with bombs. |
| 0:02.6 | You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, about your future. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello and welcome to the trawl, where we wade through the absolute binfire of the internet |
| 0:24.4 | so you don't have to, separating the genuinely important from the deeply unhinged and |
| 0:30.3 | occasionally struggling to tell the difference. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:35.9 | And yeah, what a week. And we have tried our best trawlers to cover it |
| 0:40.6 | in four packed trolls. I like this tweet from Seve, who wrote, please don't send me an email |
| 0:48.2 | unless you start it with something like this. Hi, Sevei. I hope you are managing the trauma of the American experience. |
| 0:56.1 | I'm having a bit of this. You know, when someone genuinely asks you at the moment, like how you are, |
| 1:00.1 | I say, I'm all right, all things considered. Yeah, that's the standard line, isn't it? Now, |
| 1:06.9 | because of the craziness of this week, as Marina said, it's been a bumper-trial week, |
| 1:12.4 | and we've tried to sort of be as current as possible, but we also want to cover everything |
| 1:16.8 | that's happened. So there's some stuff that's not in chronological order. So for example, |
| 1:22.0 | we still need to go back to some of the Pambondi stuff because it's funny. And we want to have a look at some stuff that Heg Seth has been up to. |
| 1:31.5 | But it's just like the bloody threat of nuclear war kept being a priority. |
| 1:36.0 | Can't think why. |
| 1:37.3 | Well, not for everyone, not for our government, which we will get to. |
| 1:41.5 | Other things were more of a priority. |
| 1:42.9 | But then we wanted to get to all of that. |
| 1:44.3 | And then it's like, okay, we stop recording. |
| 1:46.9 | And then we have this ceasefire. |
| 1:50.0 | We knew it wasn't going to be a ceasefire. |
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