Ep 94: Vorders' revenge and Proms flags outrage

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This Trawl is a trawl in it's simplest form - a meander through clips and tweets that have caught Marina and Jemma's attention. First up, Johnny Mercer has posted a picture of his child which led to a lot of Twitter (or X) questions surrounding privacy, permission and safety. The mere mention of the Mercer's leads nicely into a chat about the fierce Carol Vorderman magazine cover in The Times last week. The Mercers aren't exactly fans so Jemma and Marina hope they got a copy. Ditto Greg Hands who seems far more bothered about what Carol's tweeting than the consequences of his email introduction from Mark Higton to the VIP PPE lane, which resulted in Luxe Lifestyle being awarded a £25 million PPE contract. Twenty million pounds worth of what they produced wasn't usable but apparently anyone asking questions...shouldn't. Or, at least,that's what Sunak thinks because he has declared the whole subject shut. Ah well, perhaps if we go to The Proms and waggle a flag we'll feel better. But which flag? Union Jack or EU? There were plenty of both on display at The Proms but certain types were livid with the BBC for showing the EU ones. Even though no one's sure how they could have avoided it. The word disgrace has been a bandied about a lot however. Though Jemma is more concerned about the lyrics of Rule Britannia but hey, each to their own. And as for that Harry, he's also a disgrace (according to the same sorts). His crime? He went to pay respects to his grandmother, the late Queen, wearing a shirt. Marina and Jemma aren't entirely sure why anyone has a problem with that. Pudding is beautiful and reflects the pomp featured in this episode. It's Alan Partridge in all his Coronation commentator glory. Enjoy! Thank you for sharing and do tweet us @MarinaPurkiss @jemmaforte @TheTrawlPodcast Patreon https://patreon.com/TheTrawlPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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
0:22.9	taxes fun, but Tax Act can help you get them done. Tax Act, let's get them over with.
0:30.1	You tried to get out of paying the tax. How do you know that? It said it is understood.
0:34.6	How do you investigate that? Nice, nice, nice.
0:43.5	Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:44.7	I'm Marina Perkis.
0:48.7	And I'm Gemma Forte, and this week's Trawl really is that.
0:50.9	It's the Trawl in its simplest form.
0:54.9	Just a nice meander through a hotch-podge of stuff that we've seen on social media.
0:59.7	Although Marina, I mean, typical, she's just got in, literally, from doing the Storm Huntley show.
1:01.1	And it's kind of like a late entry.
1:02.3	You haven't got time to shove in.
1:05.0	A tweet I noticed going viral.
1:06.6	You and Carol Malone.
1:09.4	Yeah, it's a first for me, Gemma. So the first time I've ever gone on a debate show, so it's on Channel 5, and Carol Malone,
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