Sport Triggers MAGA, Mandelson's Makeover, and the Epstein Blackout
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Olympians dare to distance themselves from Trump, Bad Bunny turns the Super Bowl halftime show into a love-soaked middle finger, and Kid Rock delivers what may be the worst miming incident in broadcast history.
Then it gets darker. Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network run a Super Bowl PSA demanding the truth while the US government, British media and political class continue to redact, deflect and downplay. Why are names still hidden? Why is the press treating this like an inconvenience rather than the biggest abuse-and-blackmail scandal in modern history? And why does Peter Mandelson get a soft-focus Sunday Times makeover like he’s the victim here?
Jemma and Marina dig into the Epstein files, the media blackout, the aristocratic audacity of people bragging about their proximity to a convicted sex trafficker, and the jaw-dropping clips you have to hear to believe. Plus: Reform, Farage, Russia, Israel, the monarchy, Melania’s film getting absolutely savaged and a pudding that might be the only sane thing left.
It’s rage, receipts and gallows humour — because apparently that’s where we are now.
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| 0:00.0 | If you were on the scene and you were powerful, like, to be honest, like if you're not in those files, it would be an insult. |
| 0:06.4 | Because it just means that you were a bit of a loser. |
| 0:08.9 | Are you in the files? |
| 0:09.9 | Well, of course I am. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, and welcome to The Trawl, the podcast where Jimmer and I attempt to behave like normal adults and then immediately fail because, well, politics. |
| 0:35.6 | Do we attempt to behave like normal adults? |
| 0:39.2 | Well, I just forgot to say my name there, Gemma. So I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:45.5 | Oh, hello, and I'm Gemma Forte. All going well. I'm back in the UK. I've got a bowl of musely next to me and it reflects perhaps my mood. It's got sort of dry old husks of spat out |
| 0:52.0 | Oden it. It's got a couple of fruity berries. How was it waking up to lovely |
| 0:56.7 | grey skies? That's good. No, really good. No, really good. All going well. Yeah, I feel |
| 1:03.5 | fabulous. Pearl Rose wrote, hey babe, how's compartmentalizing the horrors going today? |
| 1:11.1 | And that's what I'll say, trawlers. |
| 1:12.9 | I even took the horrors with me to paradise. |
| 1:15.3 | You can't just be switched off these days. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm getting increasingly alarmed by the things that people don't know. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm going to say something and I'm not going to say who, |
| 1:26.7 | but somebody at work yesterday, first day back, said, yeah, but is Trump really implicated as in didn't do anything? And I just thought, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Count to 10. All you've got a thing, you should know what you should have said to them. You should have said, if that were your kids school teacher, right, in the files the way he is, or even your |
| 1:45.3 | NatWest Bank manager or your next door neighbour, you would give a shit. So why don't you care |
| 1:50.6 | when it's the leader of the free world? These people, these people. And Trosh Martin wrote, |
| 1:57.8 | I really want to fast forward to the part where there's justice. Yeah, the end of |
| 2:02.1 | the film, the end of the movie, where all the wrongans have been dragged off to a different |
| 2:08.0 | planet and chained up. That'd be great. Yeah, like the end, like the end of Goodfellas, |
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