4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This week's pod opens with a chuffed and excited Marina, who realised that she has what it takes to be an Olympian - or more specifically, an Australian breakdancing Olympian.
Marina and Jemma lament what X has become under Musk, who has been taking aim at the UK in his new self-appointed role of free speech hero of the people. Though, as the ladies discuss, Musk doesn't always practice what he preaches...
Liz Truss has been out-lettuced once again thanks to Led By Donkeys, and Musk is displaying all the maturity of a 10-year-old in his meme response to the EU's Digital Enforcer, who wrote an open letter reminding him that with a great platform, comes great responsibility.
Then it's over to the US for some Trawl gold, courtesy of Donald Trump who appears bigly confused, before an underrated clip of the week that will leaving you feeling all exotic and maybe even bilingual...
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0:30.2 | So Elon called me. |
0:32.1 | As you know, he endorsed me full-throated. |
0:37.3 | Hello and welcome to the trawl where we scroll through social media so you |
0:41.3 | don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis and this week amid all the chaos and the fact |
0:48.1 | that Twitter or X is now a horrible cesspit of trolls and racists and nudes in bio sex bots. |
0:56.6 | I got an awful lot out of trolling this week actually |
0:59.4 | because I learnt something quite incredible that I didn't know before. |
1:03.7 | And it's made me feel really good about myself |
1:06.6 | because I learnt that I could be an Olympian |
1:10.6 | or, more specifically, an Australian breakdancing Olympian. |
1:17.6 | And I reckon you could too. You could too, Gemma. |
1:21.2 | Yes, indeed. And in fact, my 17-year-old son sometimes attempts a bit of break dancing. |
1:26.0 | He sort of gets on the floor in the kitchen, |
1:32.5 | sort of in the way, really, when I'm trying to get to the fridge or something. But I reckon, |
1:38.6 | having seen Raygun, maybe he could qualify. Perhaps. I don't know. But the point is this Raygun lady was quite amazing and also reminded me of when I was a lot younger, I used to have this |
1:43.9 | game. And I think we |
1:45.6 | should do it one day after a few wines, Marina. It's very freeing. It's quite drama studenty. |
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