Bombs, Bluster, and Bad Intel: Mad Men at the Helm
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Another week trying to wade through and make sense of an insane news cycle. The Trawl ladies hadn't had Trump bombing Iran on their bingo card but that's exactly what happened last weekend when Trump single-handedly decided that that was the way to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At time of record, Trump's own intelligence reports state that the strikes weren't wholly successful. He says they're wrong, oh, and Iran and Israel don't know what the 'f' they're doing. Super.
As ever there are some incredible tweets and clips to share with you and when it all gets too much, Jemma has a new ditty to inflict upon everyone. With Netanyahu continuing to do whatever he wants with no sign that international law means anything to him, and Trump thinking he can make countries do his bidding by posting his orders for them on Truth Social, Marina and Jemma ponder whether it's time for more female leaders to emerge. Emily Maitlis has a view on this too, as does the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.
There's some White House hilarity involving a very bewildered Juventus team and a look at how the BBC are reporting the news currently.
A jam packed Trawl, stuffed full of online riches.
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| 0:00.0 | We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we wade through shite so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:17.5 | Oh, that's new. |
| 0:19.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:20.0 | We thought we'd try a new, a new opener. |
| 0:22.6 | For any new listeners, it's usually we scroll through social media so you don't have to, but no, that is now. |
| 0:28.0 | It feels apt. |
| 0:29.1 | And I'm Marina Perkins, and yeah, that's basically long and short of it these days. |
| 0:33.0 | So we dig through the digital carnage, which is bloody great for our own mental well-being. |
| 0:39.6 | And you can emerge, informed, outraged, and maybe a little lighter somehow. |
| 0:45.7 | Not quite sure how. |
| 0:46.9 | Yes, hopefully. |
| 0:47.9 | At least we're sort of unequivocal about what we think, because that's been bugging me lately, |
| 0:52.9 | watching sort of people trying to find |
| 0:54.5 | a bit of balance about Palestine. I just think, oh, go right. Yeah, because there are some things |
| 0:57.8 | we shouldn't really need to find a middle ground for. I saw this clip, brilliant, from Anna Connolly |
| 1:02.6 | is cool on Instagram. Have a listen. The caption is, trying to find common ground in 2025. |
| 1:08.5 | Okay, can we just all agree that all children deserve clean water and food? |
| 1:14.5 | Actually, I feel like it's not quite that simple. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah, you think it would be simple, but no. |
| 1:20.1 | I tell you what, I was messaging Gemma and I was saying, do you know what, it's just |
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