Superbowl, Kanye West goes Tonto and The Trawl's Version of Valentine's

The Trawl

Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Love, positivity, drama, scandal, horror, and chaos, it's all in the air during this episode of The Trawl. Marina has a theory. She suspects that Jemma had a lot of stuff bookmarked that wasn't appropriate for normal Trawls so has decided to do a Valentine's ep so she can sandwich it in. She might be right...

The Trawl ladies kick off with some reasons to be cheerful and reminders that whilst it might not feel like given the political hellscape, the world is full of wonderful people. Not just power hungry billionaires and authoritarian leaders. It's a timely reminder.

Then the Trawl takes a musical turn because social media has been dominated by the off- pitch shenanigans at the Superbowl. Taylor Swift was in the audience watching her partner play and got booed by MAGA. Trump (and this will amaze you) reacted like a petulant toddler with the maturity of a gnat. Meanwhile rapper Kendrick Lamar was on stage making all sorts of pointed references to frenemy Drake. in fact it's fair to say the football probably didn't receive as much speculation as his performance did.

Then Marina and Jemma briefly discuss Kanye West's disgusting Twitter tirades and his odd appearance on the red carpet at The Grammy's with girlfriend Bianca Censori who was naked in a way that wasn't entirely comfortable for onlookers. It probably wasn't entirely comfortable for her either. Definitely chilly.

And then Jemma leads a valentine's section,, on her own. She explains why but don't worry, the Trawl ladies haven't split. They'll be back together for the whole of the next ep.

Pudding is full of love - enjoy!

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0:00.0	Special welcome to those few returning from our British Airways Club.
0:03.2	Spaghetti, Scooter, Stadium.
0:06.4	Huh.
0:07.2	My recent emojis are like a highlight store of my holiday.
0:11.2	Gelato, bird, sad face.
0:14.6	Just didn't see that sneaky seagull coming.
0:17.3	Free Wi-Fi messaging for British Airways Club members.
0:20.0	Another British Airways Travel Essential
0:21.8	Available on selected British Airways aircrafts from Heathrow and Gatwick
0:24.8	When you sign up for free as a British Airways Club member
0:26.8	Data is limited to text only, images and videos are not included
0:29.8	I married a woman who's like this amazing activist
0:32.6	All she thinks about all day is how can I help the people who are most in need
0:35.8	And so when I watch these, like, incredibly powerful people, I just think, like, why are you not spending your day helping people?
0:43.2	Hello, and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media, so you don't have to.
0:48.0	I'm Marina Perkis. And I'm Gemma Forte, and this is a slightly different trawl in some regards
0:53.0	today, because we're going to go
0:54.7	a little bit off-paced. It's Valentine's Day, after all, so I said to my one true love, Marina,
1:00.8	I said, can we do a positive troll, please, like a heartwarming one, a bit of a funny one,
1:06.3	and not necessarily all orange buffoon related or quite as exhausting.
1:14.7	So knowing Gemma, I know exactly the reason for this.
1:18.9	Basically, what will have happened is she'll have been bookmarked just loads of random,
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