Tony Blair’s Gaza Riviera, Empty Prayers and Cap Snatching
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It’s another wild week online including yet another internet meltdown involving a CEO. This episode begins with a new 'caught on camera' scandal at the US Open, where a paving CEO grabbed a signed cap meant for a child, sparking memes, fury, and tanked reviews for his company.
Then the Trawl ladies head over to the White House Rose Garden, where Donald Trump raged about a scratch in his limestone path with more passion than he could muster for a tragic school shooting in Minneapolis. Marina and Jemma unpack the hypocrisy, America’s gun crisis, and the empty ritual of 'thoughts and prayers.'
And finally, there’s the jaw-dropping plan to turn Gaza into a luxury resort — with Trump, Jared Kushner and yes, Tony Blair in the mix. The hosts trawl the takes, from biting satire to righteous outrage.
The Under rated section is jam packed with people's takes on what Trump's brief break from Truth Social might have meant.
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| 0:49.2 | Hello and welcome to The Trawl, where we dive headfirst into the digital abyss, scoop up the madness, |
| 0:55.7 | and serve it with a side of sarcasm. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:59.2 | And I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 1:00.5 | And you remember the cold play concert scandal, right? |
| 1:05.0 | When the CEO and his HR colleague got caught on camera in a very apparent site of infidelity that literally broke the |
| 1:11.4 | internet. Well, we've got a new one for you, everybody. We've got a new caught on camera moment |
| 1:16.2 | that looks set to have equally sort of widespread repercussions. This one's got everything. |
| 1:21.9 | It's got a tennis match, a child, a signed cap, and a man who apparently thought, |
| 1:27.4 | first come, first snatch was a valid |
| 1:30.2 | moral co. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah, you might have seen this doing the rounds. |
| 1:33.5 | So, at the US Open, Polish tennis star Camel Margell Zak, I think that's how you say it, |
| 1:38.9 | try to gift his signed cap to a young fan named Brock, so this boy who's about 10-11, but a guy named Piotr-Shurzerec, who is the CEO of a paving firm named Drogbrook, |
| 1:50.1 | snatched it mid-air and stuffed it into his wife's bag. |
| 1:54.9 | And you actually see the face of this, that young kid, Brock. |
| 1:58.4 | And he's like, what? |
| 1:59.8 | And the whole thing was caught on camera in front of that child that it was handed to. |
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