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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Jemma and Marina open with a tribute to the late, great BBC Radio host, Steve Wright who we lost last week - Sunday Love Songs will never be the same...
Then... Should the ladies try to be more poetic when talking down the Tories? Bells and bollards are fine, but perhaps they would fare better taking inspiration from the Nigerians. There's a lot of fun to be had when the ladies put this into practice.
Next, it's onto those massive by-election losses for Labour - which the Tories and their client journalists will still try to have you believe show no enthusiasm for Labour. If that's the case, goodness knows what it means for enthusiasm levels for the Tories.
Rees-Mogg gets a little section all of his own for being thicker than average - or as the Nigerians might say: for being chased by wisdom, but choosing ton outrun it. The ladies discuss Mogg's latest milk-based outburst and try desperately to remove toxic visions from their minds when talk turns to Mogg's nanny and his...bitty.
Then it's a celebratory moment for the fact that the UK has entered a recession - but just a little, mild, technical one - in fact, one of the best ones we've had in years according to the BBC - how lovely.
But don't even think about blaming the party of Govt for the last 14 years, instead be sure to blame students who play truant, as suggested by the seemingly crack-smoking jounro at The Telegraph, who suggested as much in their headline.
Then it's a quick despair at being walked at gunpoint to the cashpoint by our Govt and utility firms to pay for their record profits, before some topical tweets and a GB News pudding that may invoke a tiny bit of vom.
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0:00.0 | that if you add together the Conservative and the Reform Party vade, it's more than the Labour Party vote. |
0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
0:13.1 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
0:14.5 | And I'm Gemma Forte, and we're going to start this episode with a tribute to a radio legend, |
0:20.5 | the one and only Steve Wright, who sadly |
0:22.5 | died on the 12th of February, very unexpectedly. He literally had said goodbye to his listeners on |
0:28.6 | the Sunday and sort of said, see you next week. Steve Wright, of course, known for Sunday love |
0:35.7 | songs, which I don't know anybody who hasn't had that in the |
0:38.7 | background on a Sunday at some point or other, and also his big show in the afternoon. |
0:44.5 | And I just want to read a couple of tweets. |
0:47.3 | Worth saying that I don't always listen to Radio 2, but I happened to be listening to it |
0:51.9 | on the day that he died. |
0:56.7 | And Sarah Cox, poor love, |
1:04.8 | was live and sort of got the breaking news and was so astounded and sudden. So that was a difficult show to listen to, actually. Jeremy Vine, another one of his radio to colleagues, |
1:09.9 | said, my tribute to Steve Wright, |
1:12.9 | RIP, generous colleague, kind friend, consummate professional, who, along with Kenny Everett, |
1:19.2 | was the greatest innovator in radio. And Danny Wallace, who's a comedian, he had written a whole |
1:27.0 | thread, actually, quite recently about |
1:29.4 | Steve Wright, but before he died. And just a section of that I'd like to share with you now. |
1:36.3 | So Danny wrote, he turns up when you need him, won't batter you with opinions unless those |
1:42.4 | opinions are generally positive and won't make you feel like |
1:45.9 | an outsider standing in a queue somewhere hoping you're allowed in. It's like being on a party boat |
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