Trump's Sick-Bag Sycophants, GB News Nonsense & the UK's New Political Prisoner
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Trawl, Marina and Jemma don the hazmat suits and dive headfirst into the week’s social media sewage. From GB News’ prehistoric banter courtesy of Eamonn Holmes, to Trump’s cabinet clownery, we dissect the spectacle, the sycophants, and fetch the much needed sick bags.
Trump’s latest descent into incoherence gets the full treatment - complete with golden desk trophies, FIFA fanboys, and Apple’s billion-dollar back-scratching.
Then back home, we talk Lucy Connolly: ex-childminder, arson inciter, and self-declared “political prisoner.” The Tories are calling it two-tier justice. We’re calling it what it is.
Plus: a pudding from comic Tom Nestor that points out the ludicrousness of the bells painting roundabouts as a show of BRITISH PATRIOTISM!
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| 0:00.0 | I settled seven wars and actually, if you think about pre-wars, add three more. So it would be 10. |
| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to The Trul, the podcast that sticks on the rubber gloves and goes rummaging through the week's social media rubbish to see what's worth keeping and what's just landfill. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:27.6 | And I'm Gemma Forte, and we're going to kick off with a TV moment that is so on PC, so uncomfortably dated and embarrassing, it will make you gasp. Until that is, |
| 0:40.2 | you realise it happened on GB News, at which point you'll probably just feel happy, you don't |
| 0:44.8 | watch it. But you will also be entitled to question the IQ of anyone who bloody does. |
| 0:51.4 | Aver listened to this. It's the morning show on G.B. News, hosted by Aman Holmes. He is talking to Kerry Ketona. I don't really know why. Why would he be on a new show? Anyway, well, apparently, something to do with her eyelids. She's had an eye lift, some kind of cosmetic tweak. So obviously, all the big important stories. Yes. And here's what followed. |
| 1:15.3 | It was making me eyes feel a bit heavy, so I had an uplift. |
| 1:18.1 | But what I don't like is where children. |
| 1:20.6 | You don't look oriental or anything, do you? |
| 1:24.5 | Well, I don't, I don't, I just wanted the skimmer movie. |
| 1:30.3 | Apparently, you're not allowed to describe someone as looking oriental or I don't know how I would then describe Kerry Katoona if her eyes change shape. |
| 1:35.3 | I don't know how I'm going to say does she look like someone from some other country |
| 1:40.3 | in the eastern of the world. |
| 1:42.3 | The world is ridiculous how you have to apologize for people, |
| 1:45.8 | I mean, if she painted herself, |
| 1:48.3 | oh, I don't, don't get into this. |
| 1:50.0 | But anyway. |
| 1:50.5 | But Kerry looks beautiful. |
| 1:52.0 | Kerry looks well. |
| 1:53.6 | And I'm sorry if you don't look well |
| 1:56.8 | and we've offended you in any way or, well, I don't know. |
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