4.6 • 708 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Marina and Jemma begin this episode talking about their various coping strategies for living through a political binfire and... January. They have classical music in common but a clip from comedian Michael Spicer causes them to wonder, is The Trawl the equivalent to Classic FM?
Then, they can't put if off any longer, it's time to find out what the newly inaugurated President has been up to and man, he's been busy. Busy making hellish statements about Gaza, busy deporting people, busy making cuts to cancer research, and busy dismissing government watchdogs and hiring cronies.
The Trawl ladies are particularly alarmed by his pick for Secretary of Defence, a Fox News anchor called Pete Hegseth who wants to change his role to 'Secretary of War.' Okaaaaay.
Still, Trump has claimed that Starmer is doing a 'good job'. Coming from him it's hardly praise you want framed.
And inevitably Jemma and Marina want to discuss the fact that Musk spoke at an AfD rally in Germany. His words were chilling but hardly surprising given his choice of hand gesture on the world stage the week before.
There are underrateds of course and pudding is a bit different to usual. A writer called Nate White wrote a magnificent response to the question 'Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?' Pudding gives you a flavour of his wonderful answer.
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0:00.0 | Katie Bolter. |
0:01.0 | Oh wow. |
0:02.0 | Tennis is full of noise. |
0:04.0 | Pressure. |
0:05.0 | Manifest. |
0:06.0 | Intensity. |
0:07.0 | But what really makes me feel alive? |
0:09.0 | It's the focus in that quiet. |
0:13.0 | A moment to breathe. |
0:17.0 | To reset. |
0:18.0 | To hydrate. |
0:20.0 | That's what really makes me feel alive. |
0:23.6 | Britta, the official water partner of the LTA. Pick up Britta's filtration range online or at your |
0:29.2 | local store. Like it, you can always take your nazi salutes and your masculine energy and go back |
0:34.6 | home. Hello and welcome to The Trawl where we scroll through social media so you don't have to. |
0:42.1 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
0:43.7 | And I'm Marina Perkis and look, there is no getting away from it right now. |
0:47.5 | The world feels just so messed up. |
0:52.0 | Just a bit about shit and I think sometimes we need to zone out. We need to |
0:56.6 | have our own coping mechanisms. I know we've got, I've got mine. We've spoken about it before. |
1:01.6 | I witnessed it last night. You did. I've got my, Gemma calls it my billionaire lifestyle porn. |
1:08.5 | Yeah. Basically, I put these playlists on YouTube, but they're like with visual. So you've got this beautiful. You can choose lots of different backdrops. It can be like a beach or it can be like a New York loft apartment, like gorgeous, like billionaire lifestyle. Yeah. Some smooth jazz. Yeah, it's quite weird. I walked into her house last night, had a bit of dinner. The kids are like playing, they're doing their drawings and everything. And Marina's just launching out a bit of billionaire porn with a saxophonist in the background. It took me a while to acclimatized, but I can confirm that after a while, quite soothing. Yes, told you. So that's my coping mechanism. Gem has got around. She's done more hot yoga this month than a Buddhist monk, I think. Yep. And then she's got her soothing TikTok habits, like watching people pop their spots, gross, which she mentioned in a previous episode. But one thing we're both using as a calming tool is music, which is why we wanted to share |
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