Ep 171: UK riots, Trump madness plus couches and dolphins...
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
With riots kicking off and more planned for the weekend, Jemma and Marina open with a chat about those who appear more than happy to stoke the flames and the media platforms that do nothing to put out the fires. Speaking of which, Elon Musk has been having online beef with his estranged child, and when he's not doing that he's sharing deepfake videos of Kamala Harris that threaten US democracy.
And US democracy is indeed at threat, especially given Trump's tacit admission that if people vote for him now, they won't have to vote again - red flag, anyone?! After a few clips of Trump managing to come across even weirder and more dense than usual, it's onto JD Vance and that couch rumour...
Then, brace yourself for one of the most bizarre underrated clips ever from Nick Ferrari's show on LBC. You might never look at Nutella the same way again...
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| 0:00.0 | You. Yeah, you sitting there. |
| 0:02.1 | I know what you're thinking of. I know what you're really thinking of. |
| 0:04.9 | You want that cheese snack. Yeah. The one you steal from your kids' lunchbox, perfectly round, cheesy and baked to perfection. |
| 0:12.1 | The one you hide on the top shelf so your short game can't reach. |
| 0:15.2 | The one you keep in your glove box for traffic jams? Or just because? You're thinking of mini-cheddars. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, did it just make it worse by |
| 0:21.8 | mentioning it? Sorry, go on. Give in, I would. Mini-cheddars baked with real cheese. Still thinking |
| 0:29.0 | about it, aren't you? And I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, |
| 0:34.3 | he actually transitions into a woman. |
| 0:43.8 | Hello and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:45.1 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:53.5 | And I'm Gemma Forte, and today we are taking you across the pond for the latest shenanigans over in the US. But before we do that, we would like to start |
| 0:56.6 | off by saying that if any of you are police officers and not on a shift right now, we do feel so |
| 1:02.8 | sorry for you. It's just abysmal the fact that decent police officers are putting on their |
| 1:08.5 | uniform knowing that on top of everything else that |
| 1:11.5 | they have to deal with in an overstretched force, they have to now be coping with riots, |
| 1:17.7 | I'm not going to call them protests, from brainless thugs who think it's okay to go and vandalise |
| 1:23.2 | our country in the name of FNOS what, incited by the likes of Farage. |
| 1:28.1 | And we're not going to get into this fully. |
| 1:30.1 | We might do next week. |
| 1:31.6 | It depends. |
| 1:32.7 | But I was furious this morning, Marina, on GMB, on Twitter at least, they framed it like |
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