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The Trawl

Ep 113: Jungle Ratings, Populism and Class War

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The I'm a Celeb ratings have plunged since last year. Two million fewer people are watched the launch compared to last year, despite what the GBeebies gang are saying. Then again, they did get hold of the wrong data. In reality, it looks like, booking a 'fash for cash' isn't the ratings hit ITV hoped it would be. The Trawl ladies discuss whether or not there's a difference between someone's values and someone's opinions or, whether it's OK, necessary even, to conflate the two in order to get the measure of someone.   Meanwhile, over in Argentina, far-right, self-proclaimed madman, Javier Milei, has been voted into power. Chainsaw wielding, anti abortion, gun-loving Milei wants to legalise the sale of human organs, abolish the central bank and privatise everything. What could possibly go wrong? With inflation rampantly high and 40% of Argentinians living in poverty, Marina and Jemma discuss the links between desperate times and populism. It isn't the first time a leader with unkempt hair has struck a chord with a disillusioned electorate after all.  Then of course, there's the usual array of Tory bellendery (new word) to mull over. The run up to the budget has seen Hunt mooting slashing inheritance tax whilst making cuts to the benefits of the long term sick. Bit rich from the man who 'bulk bought' six flats and managed to evade paying stamp duty on them thanks to a terribly convenient loophole. Alright for some eh?  With underrated tweets and pudding as normal.  Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes.

0:04.0

Tax Act is going to name some now.

0:07.0

Sitting in traffic.

0:08.0

Folding a fitted bed sheet.

0:11.0

Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team.

0:14.0

Digging a hole.

0:16.0

Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole.

0:19.0

Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't make

0:23.0

taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with. Right now,

0:30.7

the Tories are around 20% support. If he wants to turn it into 16, go ahead and cut inheritance tax.

0:40.0

Hello, and welcome to The Trull, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.

0:45.1

I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte. And some weeks, it's really obvious with this podcast

0:51.2

what we're going to focus on. And then other weeks, not so much.

0:59.0

And then every week at the moment, we are looking aghast at what's happening in Palestine and wondering how best to handle it. Yeah, and don't think for a second that we've stopped

1:02.9

thinking about it, feeding all sorts about it, but we think let's just keep the trawl as a bit

1:09.6

of a safe place.

1:17.9

Because I don't think it's the type of place where we go into the granularity that is probably needed for this type of conflict.

1:20.6

And it's certainly not the tone that we tend to stick to.

1:24.3

So perhaps we just leave other pods to look after that one.

1:28.9

Yeah, we did find some really interesting clips to do with it, but they're all saying the same thing.

1:34.2

And ultimately, what we think is perhaps do a little donation, if you can,

1:35.1

to save the children.

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