The people I feel sorry for who are really going to be hurt by this appalling new tax on people with two million pound homes.

It's not going to be the wealthy people with two million pounds.

It's going to be the poor people with two million pounds. Hello and welcome to The Troll, the podcast that flails around cyberspace, collating anything that might make you feel alive and or amuse you and inform you.

I'm Marina Perkis.

And I'm Gemma Forte and trawlers. Look, we need to start by raking over some truly shocking news, which we did touch on briefly in the last episode. Yeah. You're talking about reforms Nathan Gill going to have for 10 years? No, no, although, yeah, that was quite shocking, but no, we're going to get to that tomorrow. Oh, the OBR leaking the budget just before it was announced. No, no, no, not that. No, that we are covering all the budget bollocks in this episode. The Farage allegations of racism? Well, they weren't shocking, were they? They weren't shocking. To be fair, quite predictable. Okay, but we will cover that. Yes, definitely. So we'll do that on Friday, okay? So, yeah. Okay, so what shocking bit are you talking about? Oh, well, the fact that you admitted in the last episode that you've put your Christmas tree up in November, which, I mean, it's just weird. I can't get my head around it. In fact, it's so weird and such sort of premature Christmas-based activity that even Russell Hicks

made a diary entry and put American in the UK Christmas.

Dear diary, in Britain, Christmas starts in November.

British people believe that if they begin Christmas earlier, the summertime will come sooner. Then, after two months of

intense financial anxiety, they released the tension by getting drunk and punching each other

for an entire 24-hour period. They call Boxing Day. I think you know now, that day approaches,

and I must make sure I'm ready. I guess it does sound weird Boxing Day if you don't celebrate it. Abida Graham, though, just put underneath that, well, Scottish people punch each other for two days, but over New Year.

And Raging West, you put, well, if you want to start punching people earlier, just come to Newcastle for a festive night out on Black Eye Friday. Well, there are a lot of fallings out, you know, in fact, happy Thanksgiving today to all our American listeners. There's been a lot of takes on the internet I've been reading about how, like, a lot of people dread this kind of coming together at this time of year, because there are fallouts. This is when, you know, you've got a few sherrys that go down, few red wines.

Yeah.

Suddenly. dread this kind of coming together this time of year because there are fallouts. This is when, you know, you've got a few sherrys that go down, few red wines. Yeah. Suddenly people start getting all political. Yeah. To get your weird uncle. So I'm not racist, but I can't say anything these days. Yeah. By the other, I'm not talking about my uncle. My uncle's lovely. Yeah. Or, and we'll get to it. I mean, I voted Brexit, but bloody hell the economy is shit. Really?

Yeah. Or, and we'll get to it. I mean, I voted Brexit, but bloody hell the economy is shit. Really? Yeah. I feel like people who voted Brexit, O-O-O-S. Yeah. I owe you, little voucher. They have absolutely no right, no right to moan about the state of the economy. Just don't zip it anyway. We'll get to that. So trawlers, this is Thursday's episode. You're in for a treat. There's another episode tomorrow. And on Saturday, a little bonanza. Yeah. You've got the trawl meets Nadia Soala, the loose woman, who is so much fun. It's a really fun listen. It's a very candid, open, raw listen. It's funny. It's, yeah, it's a good one. Yeah, she's absolutely gorgeous. So look at that. That's going to, I know, a trawl coming in your ears. Blooming, heck, I know. I know what we're doing at the busiest time of year. We're absolutely crazy. But you know what? We've always said, if the content is there, we will do it. So we're pulling out our Christmas sacks, I was about to say.

I'm going to say.

I'm going to just share with the trawlers, though.

I did get a late night voice note from Jimmy yesterday saying, Marina, we're not doing this again next week. I can't, I can't do it. I can't do it. It's too much. I'm like, okay, okay. Just a mini trawl breakdown.

Then the next thing I sent you was me and my kids doing, banging some pans together and doing a song.

So highs and lows in this house.

Hys and lows. And you bear the brunt of it all. You come on that roller coaster with me. It's an emotional time of year. And that said, it is cold outside. It is dark. And if you ever had that moment where you've made a plan for the evening and then you get towards it and you're like oh kind of wish i'm staying in and watching telly but you've got to plough on through

anyway this is why we enjoyed this clip from mr jack skipper on instagram and the caption was

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