War Lies & Excuses & Patriarchy Pick-Mes
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Oops… he did it again. This week on The Trawl, Jemma and Marina are trying to keep up with a news cycle that’s moving faster than the White House can change its story about why it just started another war. Is it about nuclear weapons? Oil? Israel? Distraction? Take your pick, the explanation seems to change by the hour.
But first, after a weekend of International Women’s Day posts (and the faint whiff of matriarchy trending), the pair look at the women who’ve decided the best career move is enthusiastically propping up the patriarchy. Turns out, it hasn't worked out that well for Kristi Noem. Mr Apprentice himself has fired her.
Plus: George Monbiot not missing a beat, Fox News beating the drums for war, and Americans discovering that foreign policy decisions have a funny way of showing up at the petrol pump.
Strap in Trawlers, this one comes with geopolitical whiplash.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, here we go. |
| 0:03.0 | We're going to make a ton of money. |
| 0:05.0 | Nobody will threaten the straits of hormones again. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello and welcome to the trawl where keeping up with the news has started to require the emotional stamina of an ultramarathon runner due to the fact every headline has the energy of someone kicking the door off its hinges and booting you straight in the face. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:35.7 | And I'm Marina Perkis and it's true. The world's having some |
| 0:38.9 | kind of breakdown due to that hideously irresponsible deranged fruit loop in the White House and his, |
| 0:46.7 | let's be honest, his Israeli boss, Darren Partridge 251 wrote, so I've just finished watching the news. |
| 0:53.7 | I'm now going to watch Texas chainsaw massacre to unwind a little bit. |
| 0:57.8 | Woody and Lucy replied, followed up with the Jeffrey Dahmer biography, |
| 1:01.5 | and Brokanteni said, it was Silence of the Lambs for me. |
| 1:05.1 | But before we get into all of the... |
| 1:08.6 | I did it again |
| 1:11.4 | I started a war |
| 1:14.0 | because Israel told me too |
| 1:16.2 | and now it's out of control |
| 1:18.1 | the economy is going to be fucked |
| 1:20.5 | and the price of oil and gas |
| 1:22.8 | is spiraling |
| 1:24.2 | let's start |
| 1:25.6 | by acknowledging |
| 1:26.7 | thank you very much let's start by acknowledging, thank you very much. Let's start by acknowledging that it was |
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