Ep 89: The episode that "left nothing out there"
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina open with a tribute to Parky, plus a few of his best bits, including one clip that showed he may have shared some Trawl values.
Then it's onto some of the reaction to the Lionesses reaching the World Cup Final - brace yourself for the clip of Andrew, who called into LBC to offer some opinions that made Jemma think that perhaps Andrew has never had a girlfriend - or indeed friends.
Perhaps we should be grateful to Andrew for being direct and honest about his thoughts on Women's football, compared with say Prince William or our PM, who were otherwise engaged on this momentous occasion - though clearly not momentous enough for the president of the FA to clear a space in his diary...
A quick Trawl through more World Cup fallout, before a major key change as the girls discuss the horrifying story of Lucy Letby and debates that have arisen as a result around the NHS, race and whether a law to force criminals to attend their sentencing is quite as sensible as first seemed.
The ladies close with some confessions - not their own - but some absolute dynamite ones from random Twitter users, finished with a Parky-flavoured pud.
A jam-packed episode where the ladies "left nothing out there".
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Tax Act can think of a million things more fun than filing taxes. |
| 0:04.0 | Tax Act is going to name some now. |
| 0:07.0 | Sitting in traffic. |
| 0:08.0 | Folding a fitted bed sheet. |
| 0:11.0 | Listening to your coworker talk about his fantasy team. |
| 0:14.0 | Digging a hole. |
| 0:16.0 | Digging an even larger hole next to that original hole. |
| 0:19.0 | Unfortunately, Tax Act's filing software can't make taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. |
| 0:27.5 | Tax Act, let's get them over with. |
| 0:30.1 | Women should know their place. |
| 0:31.6 | They should be in the kitchen. |
| 0:32.5 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:34.8 | Wow. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, and welcome to The Troll, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:44.9 | And I'm Marina Perkins. |
| 0:46.8 | And last week on the 16th of August, broadcaster Michael Parkinson passed away aged 88. |
| 0:53.0 | This is an excerpt from the Guardian's obituary which best |
| 0:55.8 | sums up why he was so celebrated. It read, interviews could be serious or anecdotal, but the |
| 1:03.2 | emphasis was always on the guest, not the presenter. Parkinson was well briefed and rarely phased |
| 1:09.3 | by any of them. When asked why he had often asked deferential, even star-struck questions, |
| 1:15.4 | Parkinson, known as Parkie, insisted in a telegraph interview, |
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