Melania Flop, Epstein Drop & Marina vs Reform
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
January nearly finished us off, and February hasn’t exactly come in with flowers. Marina is abandoned in the news‑cycle trenches while Jemma wafts around on a boat, and together they pick through the week’s mess: Marina’s run‑in with Reform, her viral roasting of Dame Andrea Jenkyns, the spectacular failure of the Melania documentary, Bezos’ suspiciously sculpted torso, and the grim, sprawling, still‑redacted Epstein file dump. There are tributes, tangents, tech meltdowns, and an unholy amount of swearing at wires. Chaotic, cathartic, and unmistakably The Trawl.
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| 0:00.0 | It's tiresome to hear the same tropes over and over again from these left-wing so-called commentators. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to... |
| 0:20.0 | Whatever left-wing guest and that mate of yours on your awful podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Marina Perkins. And I'm that mate of yours, aka Gemmaforte. And that was Dame Andrea Jenkins, |
| 0:35.1 | being roasted, roasted by Marina Perkins on the Jeremy Vine |
| 0:39.5 | Show and it has gone completely and utterly viral. So welcome to all our new listeners |
| 0:44.5 | who have subscribed, tuned in, precisely because Dame Andrea Jenkins doesn't like us. |
| 0:51.6 | T-shirts are going to be made. Merch is happening as we speak and we will talk about |
| 0:58.0 | what happened in more detail a bit later on. But now we need to get into the trawl and trawers, |
| 1:04.9 | I feel a bit guilty because I am that person, aren't I'm Marina? Are you missing me? I have. |
| 1:09.8 | I've pissed off to the sun. |
| 1:11.2 | She's abandoned me. In this news cycle with these Epstein file drops, she's abandoned me. |
| 1:17.8 | I know. I have been keeping an eye, though, on the news. |
| 1:21.5 | Ugh, we're going to get into all of it. I have to say, though, the sunshine kind of anesthesizes some of the pain. |
| 1:27.7 | But regardless, we all need a huge pat on the back. |
| 1:33.1 | And some sort of self-care voucher, perhaps, or a gift for getting through January. |
| 1:36.4 | Because genuinely, what the F was that? |
| 1:39.0 | Jonathan Edward Durham said, okay, February, the bar is literally on the floor. |
| 1:44.6 | So if you fuck this up, it's on you. |
| 1:47.1 | And Duck, Aquar wrote, |
| 1:49.1 | We're about 1,882,9663 straws past the last straw. |
| 1:55.1 | But if something could finally be the last straw, that'd be great. |
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