The Trawl Meets Cody Dahler
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Clips of writer, podcaster and Instagram legend, Cody Dahler, have featured so many times on The Trawl, regular listeners will be completely familiar with his dulcet tones. What they may not know however is that Cody used to be a civil servant, working alongside and putting up with the Tory government and a comedy writer on shows such as Dead Ringers. Marina and Jemma find out how he's grown his huge Insta following, what he thinks about Starmer and get his thoughts on Rory Stewart's 'class anger' comments which were aimed at Zack Polanski. Plus who is Cody naming 'Bell End of the Year.'
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| 0:00.0 | Because I'm going to stop the small boats on my own. |
| 0:02.0 | And how will you do that, Jay? |
| 0:04.0 | I'll just lay my knob across Dover Beach. |
| 0:06.0 | Did you really think it would stretch that far, Jay? |
| 0:08.0 | Yes, Neil. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the trawl meets. I'm Gemma Forte. And I'm Marina Perkis. And on the Trawl meets, |
| 0:28.1 | Gemma and I get to meet people we admire and all find interesting. We discuss political topics they're |
| 0:34.3 | passionate about and explore their own unique experience of and views |
| 0:39.3 | of social media. We do indeed, but this trawl meets is a little bit different. Today's guest |
| 0:45.7 | hasn't just been a pudding. He's actually been a trawl starter. He's accompanied the mains. |
| 0:51.3 | And there is hardly an episode which hasn't had a healthy dollop of his |
| 0:55.9 | incredible work so hot of the press is he at taking in the news and then instantly taking |
| 1:02.0 | the piss. Yeah so just before we say hello, let's hear a little bit of him in action. This |
| 1:07.9 | clip has had nine million views on TikTok at time of record, and he captioned it |
| 1:14.8 | with point of view world leaders sending congratulations messages to Donald Trump. |
| 1:21.2 | Congratulations, President-elect Donald Trump. Nah, I can't do it. No, I can't do it. I know I have to do it. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm not an idiot. I know. Okay, you're right. Okay, pull it together. Put it together. Okay, here we go. Congratulations, President-elector. Greatly look forward to working with you over the... Okay, no, I can't write that. That's not believable. That's ridiculous. You fought an excellent campaign based on racism and division. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes, I'm joking. I know I can't write that. |
| 1:50.0 | Our two nations share an unbreakable bond |
| 1:54.0 | until, of course, you decide to break that bond for no particular reason. |
| 2:00.0 | What's wrong with that? |
| 2:01.6 | I cannot wait to smell your fake tan once again. |
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