We think you’ll love this… The Trawl

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Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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It’s the podcast that trawls social media so you don’t have to. Join political commentator Marina Purkiss and broadcaster Jemma Forte to find the most interesting, hilarious and sometimes ridiculous takes of the week’s trending news. Here’s a segment from some of their recent episodes on Trump ‘saving’ TikTok (and why we should be very worried) and whether Labour have just become Tories 2.0? Listen to The Trawl wherever you find your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Gemma Forte and I'm Marina Perkis.
0:05.7	We're the hosts of The Trawl, a podcast where we scroll through social media so you don't have to.
0:11.6	Twice a week we bring you the most interesting, hilarious, foolish and downright ridiculous takes from social media of the week's trending news.
0:20.6	Okay, should we talk about TikTok? Tick-Tock. Let's. The Bidmore. takes from social media of the week's trending news.
0:22.1	Okay, should we talk about TikTok?
0:22.9	TikTok. Let's.
0:24.4	The Biden administration chose not to enforce the TikTok ban.
0:30.4	And given that Trump is now peddling himself as the hero who saved TikTok,
0:35.7	well, you'll never guess who got the ball rolling on the ban back in 2020.
0:41.0	We're looking at TikTok. We may be banning TikTok. We may be doing some other things or a couple of
0:46.7	options, but a lot of things are happening. So we'll see what happens. But we are looking at a lot
0:52.4	of alternatives with respect to TikTok.
0:55.2	I mean, what a thing to be so eager to ban. Like, let's forget for a moment that he's now
1:00.2	peddling himself the hero. So basically he's sort of set a fire and then he's claiming to be a
1:04.5	hero. Now he's putting it out. Oh, God. Let's just talk about TikTok for a minute. Ticktok wasn't
1:10.3	even in my remit my world until we started doing this podcast.
1:14.8	And we got told, you need to be on TikTok to promote your podcast.
1:17.6	I have now wasted a couple of evenings of my life watching people do things like squeeze their spots.
1:27.3	Or getting earwax out.
1:29.5	That's you.
1:31.1	What are you searching?
1:33.4	I'm not searching anything.
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