Rachel Weeps as Texas Floods and America Burns

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Hold onto your hats Trawlers. Not the cheeriest episode ever recorded but the Trawl ladies do try to provide lightness where possible so begin by reflecting on some of the good things Labour have achieved in their first year, including more free school meals, nationalising steel and rail and recruiting 6, 700 more mental health workers. And yet, does any of it make up for their complicity in the ongoing genocide? The Trawl ladies certainly think not.

Marina and Jemma discuss Rachel Reeve's crying in Parliament and the subsequent market fallout and enjoy Jonathan Pie's take as a clip.

And then they drag on their waders as it's off to the swampy place that is US politics. Talk turns to Alligator Alcatrez and the amount of money Trump plans to spend on ICE. The figure will blow your minds and point to a very sinister truth. One which Stacy Abrams articulates beautifully.

Of course the Trawl ladies talk about the tragic Texas floods and why Musk and Trump's cuts were partially responsible, along with devastating climate change of course.

There's a smorgasbord of clips as ever and powerful tweets and threads and Instagram's and all the rest of it.

Pudding is truly vintage - a historic vid of a silent movie star who, when it came to fascism in the 40's could no longer stay silent.

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Created and Produced by Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Edited by Max Carrey

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0:00.0	So we're here in Plymouth to ask, what is the Museum of Tears?
0:04.4	Our house during half term. Ah-huh. Isn't that a man United's new stadium, isn't it? Well... Uh, school? Museum of Tears? It's where I'm for my bank statements. What if I told you it's an Onion Museum in Roscoff, home of the vibrant Pink Onion Festival? Oh, really? Yes, and you can sail there direct from Plymouth with Brittany Ferries.
0:04.6	Oh, nice. of the vibrant Pink Onion Festival. Oh really? Yes, and you can sail there direct from Plymouth with Brittany Ferries.
0:23.6	Oh, nice.
0:25.6	Book an Uncommon Holiday with Brittany Ferries.
0:29.6	Because you make everyone afraid that if they don't do what you want, they might be next.
0:33.6	And once you've done those nine steps, that's ten is easy.
0:36.6	That's when you decide
0:37.9	there won't be new elections because everyone's either afraid, poor, broken, or complicit.
0:46.4	Hello and welcome to The Troll where we wade through the political swamp so you can stay dry
0:52.1	and have nice white trainers. I'm Marina Perkis.
0:55.7	And I'm Gemma Forte and we do hope that despite the weight and ache of what's happening
1:00.3	around the world, you are still making the most of the summer, relishing the odd glug of
1:05.5	iced cold beer or rosé, enjoying a bit of the tennis. And of course, having the odd classic barbecue,
1:12.9	something we love almost as much as your average Australian only with uniquely British concerns.
1:19.1	Qibble-wobs.
1:20.8	Will I have this, cos-cus, cos. Get stuck in your teeth. Get stuck in your teeth. Is it just me?
1:46.4	Did you like some ketchup, boy, right? This course, goes, cos-cus. Stuck in your teeth. Williscouscus. Can I have this cusscus get stuck in your teeth? Is it just me? Do you like some ketchup? Oh, cusscuscus. Stuck in your teeth? Will it how this cusscus get stuck in your teeth? Sorry, the marrow's really watery. Oh, watery marrow. Oh, no. It's actually not the cuscus that I fear during a barbecue. It is when meat is slightly charred. a nice charred, I actually quite like a charred sausage. The charred easily, it leaves the remnants either around your mouth
1:54.5	on your teeth. And I am that person, unless I just, you're a complete stranger to me.
2:00.0	Even if you're just an acquaintance,
2:01.5	I am going to touch your face and I'm going to get it off you. I'm, I'm that kind of person.
2:05.8	That's just reminded me of what happened when we went out the other day four times.
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