One Trillionaire Approved, 42 Million Food Stamps Denied
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Trawl, Jemma and Marina dive head-first into a planet-sized pile of billionaire bullshit — starting with the news that Elon Musk is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire. Yes, trillionaire. As in: “bigger than the GDP of Saudi Arabia” trillionaire.
They roll out a brand-new listener-made jingle for the “Trickle Down Update of the Week” and ask: What on earth is Tesla doing? internet?
And as the Epstein situation develops, Trump is playing chicken with the food-stamp programme that keeps 42 million Americans fed. Payments frozen, families panicking, the Supreme Court involved, and Trump using hunger as a bargaining chip. Marina and Jemma discuss the fallout, the food-bank queues, the voters caught in the middle, and the grim Oval Office moment that shows exactly how little he cares.
Then: chaos at The New York Times, where a catastrophically misjudged opinion piece sparks the question: who keeps approving this?!
And finally, JoJoFromJerz delivers pudding - a clip that lands somewhere between cathartic, furious, poignant and funny.
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| 0:00.0 | And they agreed to give you a trillion dollars after you did this. |
| 0:03.6 | They were impressed with your robots. |
| 0:05.5 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:05.9 | Yeah, sure. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello and welcome to the trawl where instead of meditating or jogging, we like our hobbies, sadomasochistic. |
| 0:24.5 | So we pour through political tweets and threads and clips. |
| 0:27.4 | So you don't have to. I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:29.5 | And I'm Marina Perkis. And isn't it just sadist? |
| 0:33.0 | We're being a bit sadist of what we do, what we inflict on ourselves with the table. |
| 0:36.5 | We're not being masochistic, aren't we? |
| 0:39.4 | Are we not? |
| 0:39.9 | No, do you think so? We're not wearing. Was that the wrong use? The masochistic bit is when you're doing the whipping and the chaining and the, so I think we're just the sadist. We enjoy it. We enjoy going through it all. The pain. Let's go in because we've got some great news. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes. |
| 0:55.5 | We are on the verge of having. we going through it all. The pain. Let's go in because we've got some great news. |
| 0:55.0 | Yes. We are on the verge of having our first ever trillionaire because the Tesla board, |
| 1:03.9 | I don't know what the fuck they're thinking, have proposed and approved a trillion dollar pay packet for Elon Musk. |
| 1:15.7 | Go fuck yourself! |
| 1:18.1 | This actually could be the perfect opportunity to use our brand new, professionally made jingle |
| 1:24.0 | from our listener, Simon Brown. Hit it. |
| 1:26.9 | Trickle-down news update of the week. |
| 1:32.6 | I love it. Right. Tis true trawlers. So it's just gross, but true. So it's worth |
| 1:40.4 | noting that this obscene trillion dollar package that has been proposed and approved |
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