Ep 195: Budget Beef and Scary News Drop

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's Halloween week and the prospect of Trump getting in is certainly spooking Jemma and Marina. The floods in Spain are pretty damn terrifying too, as is the news from other parts of the world, including of course, the situation in the Middle East. However, the Trawl ladies are not ones for sticking their hands in the sand or their fingers in their ears though are still able to laugh about a few things, including what Jemma is reminded of every time she hears the words 'carbon capture.'

Of course there is plenty of budget chat, which might not get everyone going but certainly enthralls Beth Rigby. So much so that there ends up following some quite bizarre political entendres. Then, find out what Marina and Jemma make of the main talking points of Rachel Reeves' first budget and of course hear some interesting tweets. Though perhaps avoid Liz Truss' riveting analysis if you can, although Jacob Rees Mogg was delighted to have the economy wrecking former PM on his show to rake it all over and to pontificate. Cool.

This episode contains some excellent under rated tweets, a Trump themed pudding and the type of political analysis you're incredibly unlikely to hear anywhere else.

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0:00.0	That is equivalent to £450 per passenger for a private jet to say, California?
0:13.0	Hello and welcome to The Troll where we scroll through social media, so you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte.
0:19.3	And I'm Marina Perkis, and given it's a Halloween-timed episode,
0:23.7	we're going to kick off with a few things that are scaring the living shit out of us.
0:29.0	Now, I'll go first. There's plenty, actually. Um, firstly, it's the US election. It is, oh God,
0:36.5	it's, we were just speaking just before recording,
0:39.6	and as Gemma was talking about someone who was absolutely sure that Trump was going to win.
0:44.2	Yes, I just finished doing the Storm Huntley show,
0:46.9	and we had very differing opinions, shall we say.
0:49.4	And I was saying to Marina, I would not be one to bandy the F word about lightly on a mainstream
0:55.9	television show, but I did today. And, you know, to really back up my instinct that
1:02.8	Trump is fascist, I made very, very sure that many people who are far more intellectual
1:08.4	than I agree, and they do. And, you know,
1:11.6	when you've got famous Republicans like Arnold Schwarzeninger, like George Conway, like his...
1:16.6	Schwarzenegger.
1:17.6	Schwarzenegger. It's meant Schwarzenegger. It's not a tennis racket, mate.
1:22.1	It's Arnie.
1:22.9	Schwarzenegger.
1:24.6	We got him, him and the chief of staff, John Kelly, using, you know, this kind of
1:32.2	language, then it's okay for me to do so. I also went down a really interesting rabbit hole about the
1:36.3	five things that make you a fascist. Not you, Marina, you're not a fascist, but Franco, Mussolini,
1:43.1	Hitler, etc.
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