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The Trawl

PHEW! A Whole Civilisation Wasn’t Nuked

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

News, Politics, Government

4.7867 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It was one of those nights where going to bed felt… uncertain.


After a late-night post from Donald Trump sent the internet into meltdown, the world briefly found itself holding its breath, doom-scrolling, spiralling, and wondering what might come next. From rumours of escalation to very real geopolitical tension, the Trawl ladies try to make sense of a news cycle that felt anything but normal.


Marina and Jemma dig into the reaction online (from panic to full-blown denial), the politics behind the brinkmanship, and how quickly narratives can shift from “unthinkable” to “just another headline.” Plus: media moments that raised eyebrows, commentary that missed the mark, and the internet doing what it does best...coping in real time.


It’s messy, it’s surreal, and at times it was genuinely frightening. 


And yet Jemma and Marina still find time for underrateds and a palate cleanser at the end.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Never thought we'd be starting a troll thinking, uh, thank God we haven't been nuked.

0:05.3

There you go.

0:06.4

How was he giving us peace? There's a war raging in the Middle East. We still have war in Ukraine.

0:12.4

Which are the wars that he's headed off? Are you, is it his counting that you're going by.

0:33.4

Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we barely know what to say anymore,

0:37.4

but we'll have a go because speaking is quite important on a podcast.

0:38.7

I'm Gemma Forte.

0:41.4

And I'm Marina Perkis and trawlers.

0:43.3

We're alive.

0:44.4

We're alive. I feel that I'm alive.

0:51.3

I am alive.

0:55.0

Hallelujah.

0:58.0

Hallelujah.

0:59.0

Hallelujah.

1:00.0

Hallelujah.

1:01.0

Hallelujah.

1:02.0

It was a bit touch and go there, wasn't it, Gemma.

1:06.0

It was a little bit hairy yesterday and the world was split into people who had no idea and people

1:12.8

who were literally slightly shitting themselves, but quite a few texts this morning from

1:17.3

friends and people I know just going, who. I would say there were people in the middle as well

1:22.6

though. So I was one of those people shitting myself. My husband was in the know, but not. And I was like, why are you not bothered? He's like, sometimes I'm not bothered. It's like, it's out of my hands. But everything, a lot of things out of your hands. I, it, you know, even trumps tiny little hands. That's the problem. But it's just very strange, like, going to bed well, good night then. Well, good night. And just

1:47.3

wondering what you were going to wake up to in the morning, what notification was going to be on

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