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The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 ā¢ 867 Ratings
šļø 10 December 2025
ā±ļø 41 minutes
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Summary
Trawlers - what a week! In this truly wild instalment which is the first of THREE episodes this week. Marina and Jemma dive into the geopolitical chaos unfolding as Elon Musk throws a tantrum over an EU fine, Donald Trump unveils a National Security Strategy that is strangely pleasing to Moscow, and Europe realises the US have become the enemy.
We also check in on Melania Trumpās festive storytelling skills, Trumpās habit of nodding off, and there's an excruciating Elon-on-a-podcast moment that doesn't demonstrate why people call him a genius.
Plus: Trevor Noah nails America-vs-Europe hypocrisy, and of course, as ever, there's a delicious Pudding.
Kremlin cheerleading, Christmas monotones and a billionaire losing the plot. Buckle up!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Will you answer that place? |
| 0:01.4 | Because I cannot understand the words you say. |
| 0:03.8 | Where are you from? |
| 0:05.9 | Where are you from? |
| 0:06.9 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:20.4 | Where are you from? Hello and welcome to the troll, where we try to bring you the news and politics in a way that |
| 0:23.8 | makes you feel informed, perhaps despairing, but somehow lighter. I'm Marina Perkis. It's nice to feel |
| 0:30.0 | lighter just before Christmas, and I'm Gemma Forte, and yes, it is indeed all kicking off in |
| 0:36.0 | today's episode, because we're living through. |
| 0:39.3 | I think what happens when we tip, when I say we, I mean the world, tips the balance of the |
| 0:45.0 | ultra wealthy and let's be frank, evil people in the world taking too much control. |
| 0:51.0 | And it's not pretty. |
| 0:52.7 | So before we get to all of that, though, let's start with |
| 0:55.9 | a nice Christmas story. So are you sitting comfortably trawlers? Because here she is. I mean, |
| 1:01.3 | absolutely God knows why. It's Melania Trump. Does Santa ever get stuck partway down and need one of |
| 1:09.3 | the reindeer to give him a kick? |
| 1:15.6 | Does his suit get sooty? |
| 1:19.6 | Because she many have soot. |
| 1:24.6 | Or if you have got a mail slot, I bet Santa folds up like a letter. |
| 1:31.3 | A male slot? |
| 1:32.3 | A reindeer pop him through. |
| 1:34.3 | Can Santa see in the dark? |
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