Ep 206: Death of a CEO & Farage on Question Time, again...
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Trawl opens with some festive cheer as Marina shares the daily advent calendar struggles in her house and Jemma enlightens us with her pre-Christmas clog.
Then it's onto Farage's 38th BBC Question Time appearance where the ladies discuss motives behind why the BBC politics panel show may as well be called: Farage and Friends.
Then onto the shocking events unfolding in the US, where United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered in broad daylight in what appears to be a protest killing against the ruthlessly for-profit industry.
What's most shocking of all, is that the vast public response and sentiment to this brazen and targeted murder seems to be far from sympathetic. Jemma and Marina discuss some of the alleged horror stories from the US healthcare system and the perceived martyrdom of murder suspect Luigi Maglione and what it means, as well as the now famous smile that gave him away to the NYPD.
The episode ends with some joyous underrated tweets about 'scientits' and a Christmas flavoured pud from new Trawl fave, Cody Dahler.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't believe in any asylum. I think there's far too much made of this that they're fleeing wars. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:13.7 | And I'm Marina Perkis and we're now well into December. I wonder, is this going down in your house as it is in mine? So, |
| 0:22.2 | Shanice Thompson posted it over on Instagram with a caption, My Kids' reaction, every morning |
| 0:29.1 | when I remind them they can only eat one chocolate from their advent calendar. Linda. |
| 0:44.5 | Christmas chaos. |
| 0:48.5 | Small children get so flipping hyped, don't they? |
| 0:49.6 | Like, so mad. |
| 0:51.4 | One of my friends posted on Insta, |
| 0:52.9 | and I think her kids are a bit older. |
| 0:53.8 | But she said, |
| 0:54.4 | I'm just giving myself gold medals this year because she put a note in with the Christmas decorations that said, |
| 0:59.5 | this is the name of the child whose turn it is to put the star on top, because they clearly |
| 1:03.8 | just have a boring argument every year. Yeah. Meanwhile, no small ones in this house. That sounds like |
| 1:10.7 | an innuendo already. It's just Christmas parties. Oh my God. Sort of limping a little bit into next week. And so this tweet resonated. It was from Sam Fischel who said, I am doing the opposite of a cleanse. I am doing the clog. |
| 1:26.7 | I need a proper cleanse going into Jan, but I'm not going to do that either. So there we go. |
| 1:31.2 | I do. Must I'm a Christmas fiend. I love this time of year. I love the joy. I love the festivities, |
| 1:37.0 | the love. And Melissa Hunter wrote this. She felt the same. I really do love this time of year. |
| 1:43.9 | The Christmas music, the twinkle |
| 1:45.9 | lights, the woman in front of me in line at Costco, who just told her husband, we can give |
| 1:50.8 | your cousin a pile of dog shit for all I care. It's that festive vibe, isn't it? Yeah, where lots |
| 1:57.1 | of people get resentful. Yeah. Speaking of dog shit, Nigel Farage. |
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