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The Trawl

Ep 202: Petition gate on normal island...

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6708 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Have we all lost our minds? It appears so as the news this week was dominated by a petition, seemingly signed by bells and bots, demanding Keir Starmer call a general election - a mere 4 months since the last one. 

Jemma is inevitably quite grumpy about the whole silly affair and so opens the pod with a good moan from an equally grumpy Hugh Grant. 

Jemma and Marina discuss the laughable double standards of those demanding the election and ponder the loss of Will. Remember him? Will of the people who is now gone and forgotten. They discuss the dodgy nature of the Elon Musk-endorsed petition which has received signatories from the world over - including some uninhabitable corners of the planet. How very tenacious of them. 


And while there are some relieving laughs in the pod concerning Keir Starmer's appearance on This Morning, the ladies don't shy away from their concerns over the impact of unregulated online activity and Governments' inability to keep pace with the wild west and its broligarchs. 


The pod ends with some outrageously naughty underrated posts including some corkers from MasterChef's Gregg Wallace and a perfectly themed pudding from Instagram's Cody Dahler.


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Created and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Edited by Max Carrey

Transcript

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0:00.0

Very many people didn't vote Labour at the last election.

0:03.1

I don't know. I'm not surprised that many of them mourned a rerun.

0:11.0

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

0:16.2

I'm Gemma Forte.

0:17.7

And I'm Marina Percis and here at The Trawl, we're a strange mix of sort of excited for Christmas,

0:24.9

we're exhausted by life, we're despairing of the world, but also really happy to be alive.

0:31.1

It's all going on.

0:32.5

It's very confusing, very heady blend of emotion.

0:36.6

Gemma, I will say, is also admittedly quite angry because it was her turn to troll this week. So we can look forward to extreme levels of blood pressure next week when it's my turn. And in the meantime, we both found ourselves hard relating to this guy who was posted on Instagram by an account called

0:57.5

Street Fame Culture.

0:59.3

I just need a day between every day to recover from day before, just so I can prepare for

1:05.9

the day coming.

1:08.0

I think that needs to be in the next Angela Rainer workers' rights bill.

1:12.8

We have a day off in between.

1:15.4

I would absolutely love it.

1:16.7

I've actually got a friend who's got a friend who has managed to sort her life out.

1:21.4

So that if she does a day, she says to her, she says, oh, I need it.

1:24.5

I need a day to recover.

1:26.9

My neighbor, she has a thing now. She's like, no, I'm not working full time anymore. She's gone down to three days. She's adjusted her life as a result. And now she has days where she does tarts and techno. She bakes tarts and she listens to techno. I'm like, you are living my dream.

1:42.5

Yeah, some people have got it really absolutely sorted. And you're correct, my levels of despair

1:49.1

reached new lows, I guess, this week. But we'll go into why. There's always a story trawlers.

1:55.1

But it did mean that I also related to this clip. There is just such wonderful grumpiness in it. And it was Perry and

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