Epic Fury, Tiny Brains: Old Men With Missiles - Iran Part 1

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Join Jemma and Marina who are trying to process the latest news cycle.

At time of record, Donald Trump has bombed seven countries in twelve months. Super - really earning that peace prize he's after. Diplomacy with Iran was reportedly within reach just 24 hours before US–Israeli strikes began yet here we are. Still, ignorance is bliss because some Dubai influencers are mainly worried about missing meetings or a flight.

The Trawl ladies look at the legality of the attacks under the US Constitution and the UN Charter, the collapse of negotiations, and the human cost, including, tragically the bombing of a girls’ school and a hospital hit in Tehran. Why does the language shift depending on who the victims are? And why does nuance suddenly disappear when it comes to condemning both authoritarian regimes and reckless military escalation?

They discuss the euphoria felt by some Iranians at the death of the Ayatollah and the worry about what comes next. They examine Trump’s call for Iranians to “rise up” against a heavily armed regime, the historical precedent of abandoned uprisings, and the now-familiar promise that the “worst bombing is still to come.”

There’s nuclear hypocrisy, oil politics, Operation “Epic Fury,” and a Medal of Honor ceremony detour into ballroom interiors.

If this is liberation, it’s a strange way of showing it.

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0:00.0	I will tell you, you're not going to have a war with me and you're not going to have a third world war with me.
0:04.9	That I can tell you.
0:17.7	Hello and welcome to The Troll, where if you thought last week was chaotic, you might want to take a seat, perhaps lie down even, hydrate because the headlines have escalated from concerning to this can't be real. I'm Marina Perkis.
0:32.0	And I'm Gemma Forte. And if you want to know the true definition of cognitive dissonance, I think I experienced it
0:38.7	all last weekend. For my day job or my night job or my strange shift pattern job, I sell
0:45.0	beautiful fragrance bath products on a shopping channel.
0:49.9	Of course she does. Of course I do. There's lots of jobs I'm not suitable for. I can do that one.
0:55.1	And I therefore spent a whole weekend because I had a big weekend of it going from washing my hands and like romancing all these beautiful fragrances to going down to the canteen and looking at the news and going, oh my God, it's World War III.
1:08.8	So strange. So concerning. And so
1:11.5	bloody worrying, quite frankly, because the president of the United States and his stooge from
1:17.7	Israel literally decided to set fire to the world. And somebody called Happy Nacho 73 wrote,
1:24.9	imagine still being terrified of socialism when the world is currently overrun
1:29.7	by the most evil-to-prade, sadistic bunch of endlessly corrupt capitalist fucks history has ever seen.
1:35.7	And those still defending these monsters need their heads tested.
1:42.5	Anna Kostin 7076 wrote, Tell me where you stand politically without telling me.
1:48.4	And Dad and Buried wrote, I can read. And that's it. That's all you need to know, right?
1:52.3	Yeah. I think we are there. There is no excuse at this point for sticking up for that fucker.
1:59.2	And also do not announce a war wearing a baseball cap. I just feel so strongly about that. It's not, it's not on. It's not on Marina. I couldn't give a shit what he was wearing. Just don't announce it. It was even, was there he was. At Mar-a-Lago. Yeah. Yeah. At Mar-a-Lago. Yes, the disrespect.
2:19.2	Anyway, I mean, obviously he was joking about the cap.
2:21.2	Like you say, he could be wearing a Bugs Bunny outfit.
2:22.1	It doesn't make any difference.
2:27.7	But there must be a better way than these horrible old men who are just fucking everything up.
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