Easter Basket Case: Dark Side of the Moon, Darker Side of Earth
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It’s been a weekend of extremes. Marina and Jemma start with a rare moment of awe as they consider the Artemis mission and those breath-taking images of Earth before crashing straight back down into a news cycle that feels increasingly chaotic and surreal. From horrific, sweary 5am presidential posts to rising global tensions and questions over leadership, they unpack the moments that left everyone glued to their phones over Easter.
Along the way, they cut through the noise with sharp commentary, dark humour, and listener-favourite clips, calling out the contradictions, the absurdity, and the very real human cost behind the headlines. It’s light and shade in its purest form: wonder, anger, disbelief and a running question of how much more unhinged things can get.
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| 0:00.0 | When somebody's nice to me, I love that person. |
| 0:03.0 | Even if they're bad people, I couldn't care less. |
| 0:06.0 | I'll fight to the end for them. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the where we scroll the news and the political abyss and then react to it, like normal people, not like newsreaders. |
| 0:28.9 | Hence, why there's a lot of... |
| 0:30.6 | For fuck shake! |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Gemma Forte and I'm Marina Perkis and oh my gosh, that button, we could press it a lot. |
| 0:37.6 | What is happening? |
| 0:40.2 | Why did I just spend my Easter weekend glued to my phone? |
| 0:44.9 | I know. |
| 0:45.5 | I know. |
| 0:46.0 | On Saturday, I was actually at work, but when I wasn't busy in between bits, same. |
| 0:52.3 | Same. |
| 0:52.7 | It's like the most horrifying soap opera unfolding. |
| 0:57.0 | Elements of it that was so wild, it didn't feel real. And then elements of it |
| 1:02.0 | were just like completely and utterly dystopium. It is not. In fact, we need to just keep that |
| 1:08.4 | button, that for fuck, take, button with us. I know. On regular play. I need to put it in as a breast implant and then I can just squidge a boob and just, oh, my, right. The Sunday morning, we're going to get to it, but the Sunday morning post that he put out, the 5am, Easter morning post. Yeah, happy Easter. I don't have to say his name. We don't even to describe it. My legs |
| 1:28.8 | genuinely went to jelly. My legs felt weak. That was how much I was impacted by that while I'm |
| 1:35.9 | still trying to make a nice Sunday roast from my in-laws up in Sheffield. But anyway, look, |
| 1:39.8 | we like to do light and shade. Let's start with some light, some bright bright light, actually. |
| 1:44.6 | I was a little bit taken about by this. It was the Artemis II space mission. And I kind of had |
| 1:50.4 | thought maybe, I know, I'd grown out of the whole space thing. I wasn't interested in it. |
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