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You know, we're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people. It's gonna have the big UFC fight on june fourteenth. And I'm looking at it and maybe we'll never ever take it down Hello and welcome to the Trowl, where we follow the news so closely twitched in my left eye I'm Marina Perkis, and I'm Jeemin Forte. And I think I might be getting a twitch in my right eye. It might literally be on the blink, literally. Do you remember the guy from the pink Panther movies? Inspector Cluseu? Do you remember him? his nemesis who ended up twitching with madness? Between the two of us, Marina, though we've both got a twitchy eye, then we've got one functioning face So that's all right. in fact, if you put us next to each other, it would look like we're winking at one another, which is maybe too flirtatious a vibe for what's essentially a podcast about societal collapse. People want us to record the podcasts like the whole thing end to end. Maybe it's best that we don't. Yeah, you just see us like just twitching each other but do the show in moreorse code by our eye twitches A Right. I saw this. This is great. So Van Badam wrote, Sometimes a post exchange comes along that defines an entire era This is precisely that post exchange. And they did a screenshot of this just One person tweeting in the response And Sean Bartley Music wrote, What the fuck is happening And Ms Cuspbert, nineteen oh one wrote So which fuck are you watching? my good sir. And it's that, right? It's like what are we talking about? Yeah It just feels like there's just explosions everywhere. This is unrest, everywhere is shit It's not ideal for trawers. rightight. We are off to the United States of America for this episode as will of course be some football fans. The World Cup has indeed kicked off. And another person who's been in America is the brilliant writer, Matt Hig. If you're on Instagram, go and follow him.s justs just he's just great. He wrote. He's been on a book tour. The most common words I have heard on this American book tour are I'm sorry about our president. and they are spoken everywhere from Dallas to Boston. and I'm basically learning that if you read books, you're almost, by definition, against pathetic little fascist men. one was's terrible decision to hold the World Cup there, the more you hear about it The more it's like it U S under Trump is not fit to host. How can you have America host in the World Cup when it is being reportedly so hostile to foreign nationals. there is actually growing outrage over what the U. S. is doing to these World Cup players, squads, staff, whatever. So a few things. Iraq's top scorer, Aman Hussein was detained and questioned for almost seven hours when he arrived in Chicago. Then you've also got the fact that the Iraqi team's photographer denied entry to the country. so apparently questioned for over ten hours then had to leave the country. A Somali referee Omar Artan, who was going to be the first Somali referee selected by VIFA to officiate the World Cup denied entry. and then yeah. and then the Iran team. I mean, it's the fact that you've got The host nation at war with one of the competing nations is insane. And fifteen members of the Iran's team staff have also been denied visas so they can't support literally be there and support their team. And the team themsel, Iran, have been forced to commute each of their matches from Mexico. So imagine that. So you think about our footballers, right our players And they have got their specific pillows, they will be specific temperatures in their room, whatever our pampered pooches, fair enough do we need to do to be best performance. Iran being disadvantaged by having to commute from bloody Mexico That is how can you do that? Alphie wrote, No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams This ought to be a very basic requirement. I don't know if they've sold all the tickets. I don't know how that side of it is going. But I actually had on LBC the other day talking to Andrew Mahn. I was like, this is interesting. They had flown over. if you're like a worldorld Cup ammbassador. He actually was Australian. from America. And he was trying to persuade listeners that he was like, no, no, I mean, everybody seems to have the wrong idea. We are so welcoming. If you want to come out and they've obviously done it so I thought, well they must be panicking. likeike shit, get over there, try and get people to come No thanks, rather stick my head in a bucket of stick. Yeah. When you say special pillows, is that like have they got those and like you get in ASda sort of very man made fibers, but with their favorite team Is that it? No, Gemen. They're like that's very high spec orthopedic pillows R. R I'm going to say this, but I'm like Ben travels with a pillow 's right Yeah. it's one of those right. I called him the prrincess and the pe I w want to get a satin one. Apparently that's very good for stopping hair friz. but it's one of those things that's been on my to do list for about fifteen years. Yeah, I don't think you get around to it ' done done. I stick with the phrize. Right, trawlers before we get to the latest Trump tragedies Let's celebrate a bloody remarkable man. So Dean with us, he is he's like the debater extraordinaire. He's only young. He must be what in his twenties? Yeah, he's amazing. This guy was my son Oh my Godd I would be Beaming with pride, I would tell anyone who wanted to know that Dean Withers was my son. Listen to him in action. This is a debate And the topic was, men are better at leading than women. So tell us, why do you think that men are better at leading than women Well, I think I can handle pressure better. A lot of women the backack under pressure, all the driving regular conversations, minimal arguments Women crack, they get emotional It's more emotional bologically speaking, m or womoman. Man. For sure. I'll give my argum that men are more likely compare to women toave their decision making processes with emotion. So first and foremost, men are more likely to drunk drive, men are more likely to recklessly drive, men are more likely to commit a vast majority of all viol crimes, including those in which do not place any necessity on the use of physcical strength, such as cyberbowling, arson, or gun related crimes. Men are more likely to self unalive when men have more money, men live better lives on average compared to women. So why would that be the case? Men are more likely to abuse hard DRUGS as an unhealthy coping mechanism to deal with un processed emotions Meanwhile in the universe of that, I think that women are more likely to engage in more rational thought processes due to the fact that they just literally have a higher EQ on average. when an EQ is supposed to measure one's emotional maturity, which would be one's ability to deal with their emotions rationally. Women, biologically speaking, are designed to deal with and handle stress and pain better than men. Evolution gave this advantage to them to due to the fact that they can give birth to children, notot saying that they have to, but just simply saying that because they have that ability, okay, they could deal with stress and pain better on average. That's because of more dingchites in the context of their neuro anatomy And we see that fact by itself out in society too, such as the fact that if you're operated on by a woman's surgeon compared to a man's surgeon, you're significantly less likely to die or to experience negative postoperative outcomes because women are able to better handle the stress of surgery. What do men do? When they get stressed out or angry? They go commit ninety two percent of all violent crimes in the country. Okay So because of all of these reasons and many more I believe that men are more likely to guide their decision making processes with emotion compared to women. I'm not saying that you can't have reasonable men I think I'm a reasonable man. I'm not saying that you can't have logical men. I think I'm a logical man I'm not saying that you can't have good men, but what I am saying is that on average, seemingly women do have the upper hand here Okay, so when you list all these points off, you're talking about meant doing this, meant doing that, you said you have data to back up your statement. So I want to know exactly where you achieved This data, where you got it from yourself. just list off toppping points. I hear any sources from you He left No no fucking way. No fucking way. Yeah There's couple people inside the chat saying that kicked them because I couldn't give sources. source the claim thatenit ninety two percent violent crimes is the FBI. my source for claim thaten have thick denterides on the contxt their neuratomy therefore're equipped de with stress and pain that would be PMed. Myource for the claim that women are significantly more likely to perform better under surgery, particularly as it would result of patient outomes and not killing their patients would come from the American Medical Association in conjunction with the journal of the American Medical Association. that was actually a studied done over the course of ten years on one point four million patients. My source for the claim that men are more likely to drunk drive and recklessly drive is also coming from crime statistics given us by the FBI My source at moment of a higher EQ on average is another source coming from NIH. You get the message from us. you get the message from Wow. Hey What Hello Ledge Isars Yeah How fast does it brain work? I know. I don't think my brains ever work that quickly. And it's like it's like photographic memory. bl blah blah. That's how sometimes we listen to each other's voice notes because we speed it up That's the only time I sound that quick But they could listen to the guy on the phone as well It's just anecdotal bollocks that he's talking about and when he's questioned Cuz's I know Shapi Korandi, the comic pointed that out. She said he gave no sources, just personal opinion and then his emotions got the better of him when he was challenged. so we had to go and kick a door. Vivian Reid one on three Man not handling his emotions leaves conversation. quQuint proven Yeah, and Saramar stududio just said my deepest congratulations to whomeever raised, nurtured and educated him. This thoughtfulness and awareness is at the core of real men talking to real men. Do you remember in the episode last week where we talked about Stephen Bartlet and his optimization and he had glass of wine and it ruined his life for a week, et cetera Just because of the contrast this clip did make me smile, albeit wiley, it was just, I don't know. It amused me. so I've whacked it in and then after we've heard it, we shall get into the politics and Trump and all the rest of it Here she is. It's Kyla Kobbler comedy. Something tells me she's not optimizing any area of her health that my god, our attitude is funny She said, Sunday morning still got it. walked down to the beach to get a coffee and I got offer cocaine on the way. Someone came up to me cocaine. And I was like, no, thank you, sir, but I like that you thought I would. You know why? Beause that means I look like a fucking legend. That means I look like I can have more than two glasses of wine and not be absolutely fucking riddled with mental health issues. That's right, That's me, cocaine Sally. Lucy Goosey. a good time. Supplements. notot for me. just Coke, please I'm a legend I was delighted. I was like, Next time Daddy Oo and he's like, never call me Daddyo again. I was like, getet out of here, you drug deal Okay, actually but that's a quite a nice segway from that call with Dean with us and about men being emotional because We're going have to talk about Trump. and the internet has been dominated by the fact that he is becoming more and more rirrational and it culminated in him storming out of an interview because he is just an out of control man child. But as well as doing that, he's sleeping again He is doing more and more sleeping He was asleep Monday night. I think it was Monday night at the NBA finals just smooth and you think about the people that would be like desperate be there to be in that box and there he is catching the Zees after by the way, being booed J simply from the graft Yeah, which was really, really nice. Yes, it was, good old New York. What I am going to say is just on a human level, like 's he's an old gazer who's not well. He should not be. It's like everything that they said about Biden, which was correct as well. There does come a time when you're not cut out for one of the most if not the most demanding schedule of any job in the world you know, if your president, prime Minister, any world leader You're packed out, mate. You're starting at seven AM and Probably five nights out of seven. You're not stopping til ten eleven. I couldn't keep that up, mate. I needed a nan nap yesterday because I did five AM till eleven PM, but I had a none and that Jem, all I'm going to say is if you are in a job though You were say seventeen and you're in your eighties and you're in a job where you've never pulled in more cash in your entire career. be doing it and sleeping which is essentially what Trump is doing. here The amount of money he has made. I'm just saying In his presidency. Are you comparing my moral backbone with Trumpps like No bloody wooden I wouldn't be sacrificing the efficiency of my country because I'm a greedy Of course, I'm not drawing that comparison. I'm saying I'm not saying you were ruining a country. You know me by now if I had one million Not a billion, I'd probably be putting my feet up, you know, I love work, but I'm also quite drawn to fun and relaxation So I think you're very wrong on that for. Psib Maybe I'm talking about it's projection. Maybe it's me. Yeah Maybe I'm gonna still be working into my seventies and eighties. Jinny Hogan wrote, Are you going to speculate about whether Trump's dead every time he disappears for a week? Yes. He's eighty and goes to the doctor all the time and hasn't completed a sentence since about twenty nineteen No Evesslin said prediction. is going to die during a meeting and nobody will notice for at least an hour as they've become completely used to a man sitting next to them with his eyes closed, smelling of shit You you know what it's fair? It's a bit like what's his name? Tommy Cooper? Everyone thought it was an act, right Yeah you're used to seeing something, I think that could well well happen. could even happen when he loses his his blood pressure goes up in another interview because it keeps escalating at the rate it is. Where's it going to go? So this was an interview with Christ Wolker from NBC News and he had a car crash. So first of all, he says a straight lie He says, I didn't guarantee no wars Tallers as you know, he did Here's the liine from the interview and following on from that, you'll hear the proof You insisted noars F wring guarantee no war I'm not going to start to work me to stop wars No more wars, no more disruptions, we will have prosperity, and we will have peace Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace. We will turn the page forever others Foolish stupid days of never ending wasars they never ended. He beles like he breathes. Yeah, I know. justust denying reality. It's not like he said it in a meeting as well. He said it with a microphone in front of thousands of people multiple times. That's part of his campaigning. Yeah of his promise. Medi Hassan wrote, tryrying to imagine the reaction if a female politician, if Kamala Harris in twenty twenty four, say, had done this in an interview, screamed and huffed like this and then walked out because this is what came next. acknowledge they are slow. They're urging, they're crooked. They're urging for votes to be counted quick That's how they. croked just like you're coked. your press is crooked and meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not croked but Re Well you play right into their hands. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you' stupid. You play right into their hands with a the sc You know that these elections are rigged Y network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election and a landslide And I got ninety four percent bad press. mister President. You know why I present Be because you have no credibility. But you've never presented evidence that was rigged. Let's keep talking about I want to talk about time. You have more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented. Let's talkour elections in this country. We're like a third world country. Y elections are crooked And you're crooked. and me the press is crooked. so is ABC and CBS and CNN.' one sided crooked network. Sorry, Let's call it quit because I've had it. Thank you, Darllic, Have a good time. mister President, let's please I traveled all the way to Wisconsin.ve tra I travel ra I know. I travel rain for an hour. On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? m A country can never be great travel with a dishonest. Listen, you traveled all the way to Wisconsin What Darling. All he's asked to do is present evidence. He's never able to present evidence. He's also completely contradictory. The elections are rigged, the elections are rigged, I won a landslide. Which is it, Donnie? Which is it, Donnie? And then when he stands up there to walk out of the interview because he's not emotional, hey? He's a totally unemotional man. So he walks out, he takes off his mic, he actually stands on his mic, He he throws it on the bor He stands on his mic and the bit I take some comfort in is that he can't even walk off without kind of stumbling these big fucking ass and like touching her for support and walking away That's what I'm saying That's a bit of comfort that I'm taking from that. He's such a pathetic the anger coming through in his face It's like you can see the kind of its it's, you know Farage doesn't like scrutiny and he starts to get really peeved, like really pissed off that on another level. I think Trump is so far down the sort of malignant narcissism route, he believes his own lies and he gets angry when other people don't believe his own ar. The only thing he can handle is Sick a fan sick a fancy unless someone is going amazing amazing amazing amazing. God, I'd be sick I like actively like people who like I'm talking about my friendship group now, who respect me and are really kind to me, but also rip the piss out of me when it's deserved Itedity My kids had so much fucking mileage the other day. Anyway, introverted hiker said, literally any reporter do have evidence for that claim. Trump First of all, how dare you Saking I'm leaving Th then after this he went and covered himself in glory again because he went after CNN reporter Caitlyn Collins for Wait for it. smmiling. And we'll believe it because they knew what was going on their crooked asll. Yeah CNN's a very cororrupt organization. withith a corrupt reporter standing right there. never smiles. She never s a young. Beautiful woman never smiles. I never see a smile of her eyes. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes like She has hatred because we have borders because we have a strong military Because we cut our taxes becausecause we do things that everybody wanted. And then we win our election and Massive landslide. We win eighty seven percent of the counties in this country. get him off he just carris a ra shit Yeah. The point being business, what business is it of yours You stupid misogynistic sexist prick, whether she smiles or not. Do you comment on the facial expressions of the men in the room? Do you comment on the facial expressions of the women that you don't find attractive in the room Business is of yours. and also, no woman No man. owes anyone their bloody smile. They certainly don't. I must say it's more infrequent now, but when I was young you'd get a geeizer shouting out of a car or a van. I know it's a trope, but I do remember this a lot, go cheheer up, love. might never happen. And it's it trigger me. I just think you don't know what happen to me today. You know, it's not and that is not going to make me smile. I've got an idea, what Next time we're together and we're out, should we start quoting men. way that they can't call women Yeah. why don't we do whyy dot we start doing the whole? Cheer up love. it'll never happen. I sure have you tried? Have you tried smiling? Although what if it a nice man We don't know, do we? we don't, but it's we nice women and it happens to us. Maybe let's not do it to men in the street because they might just be they might be tue listeners. They might be lovely, lovely guys. But what we can do is be in studios with right wing panelists and go, calm down dear. Oh yes, calm down. Right, calm down, stop being emotional and cheer up Come on, smile. You know what? called they're called micro feminism. There's actually a very, very funny thread and it asks women What are Amed actually? What are your favorite micro feminism like movements that you do And some of them are great and some of them are like me, I do this. If I'm writing an email to people, I tend to address the woman first. orr some of the great suggestions were. It's like if your child is sick at school, the teacher phones the dad. Yes, that's one of them. Another one is if you meet a man As them, Do you work? Yeah Do you? It little things that just When you see a man at a party, you say, whoo's babysitting? Yes I did notice as well like if you know, Ben was doing play dating over the weekend because I went to a show I went to a show tell much show I saw You can do. I went to see Magic Mic I'll talk about it in the gohs. It was magic Anden Ben was looking after the kids. I I said babys sitting there. And then he was described because he did, he got all the paints out and he was doing this, bl blah blah. And the mum described him as like, super dad. And like, yes, he is But I just don't think Super Mum would be afford it. If you' the mom doing the same thing and baking all probablyably not. It wasn't I was a magic mic, darling. It's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But things, you know, like my generation of dads, you know, wouldn't probably have done much of that at all. So you know Progress prorogress indeed. Also on Trump, not only is he becoming more sleepy, not only is he becoming more foul, more emotional, he's also becoming more stupid So the thing is here, no one is doing anything to step in to stop him. So you know, he's got this new project, this vanity project It's the reflecting pool at DC. He is doing a bit of a refurb on it. I think he just wants to make the water cleaner, clearer, whatever. He's so proud of this. he loves his advantity projects He had a meeting where he wanted to show off his vanity project and well here, have a listen. And in case you don't know the reflecting pool, it's basically sort of an expanse of water. It's like in a park and you can see it from the White House and he's got absolutely obsessed with it. They just had this stone. ' getting a first glimpse, but That's your size compared. So those are compared to Those are among the tallest buildings in the world, including The Empire State Building. World Trade Center Sears Tower, Chicago So if you lay it on its side, youd take two or three of them to fill it in because the width is very almost two hundred feet wide. Toolers, it literally the heading on the chart that he's got in his hands is our pool is bigger than their skyscrapers And he's got the pool, the length of the pool as if it's standing upright next to these other buildings to show that it is longer than the other things are Oh Eone is saying An. Oh my gosh And just what Jamie Bonk ofz, I think summed up most people's feelings. He said, When I paid over four dollars a gallon for gas today, I thought to myself, thank God, the reflecting pool is bigger than skyscrapers. And Larry the cat said, The M six is one million two hundred nineteen six hundred eighty foot long It's easier building things when they're on the floor. Aaram Ruper said, I don't know who needs to hear this, but skyscrapers are vertical and polools are flat Oh God. all the things to be preoccupied about when you've started a war It's really weird. He's all vanity. It's born. Think about all the things, the Vanti projects, the ballroom, the curtains, the gold in the Oval Oice putting his name on staff. is he's sicko pure malignant narcissist behaviour Yeah. att least he's having a bit of a fallout with his Bzy. He's been shouting at Netanyahu reported. It's been reported. they've been on the phone and he's been trying to get quite firm with him So apparently he told Iran as well. he's been on the blower. says I had enough of it now. He's like, fucking Ell Wh do I pull? Yeah. pissing me off. No one's listening to himays No one's hing Oil. The spectator actually covered it quite well. Theyote ever the Peacemaker. Ever the Pemaker. Ever the Pacemaker Donald Trump was quick to respond. He told Iran, You've shot your missiles, that's enough. Get back to the table and make a deal He also told Axios he was going to urge Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate because Each of them had had their fun. Oh sick, Gemma, it's so much fun for everyone. So much fun kidding people Israel had its strike and Iran had it strike Clearly, however, his warning went unheeded in a sign of how fractured the relationship between the president and Israeli PM is becoming. Oh Godd, all these mad sick fucked up old men Just What are we gonna to do Bombs, I think, just just firing bombs at each other is just a really good way to end any kind of dispute, anything think Yeah absolutely. They've had their fun fun. UNESCO heritage sites ruining beautiful buildings I've had thousands of years of history. key infrastructure Ridents having to leave their homes and then being bombed to shit, children dying What a fucking laugh. Yeah, exactly. Meanwhile, oh my Godd, back to the Vality prorojects, haveave you seen the state of the White House recently? Well, we mentioned this last week, didn't we when we said he's like bloody Mikey Carroll. It's getting worse. It's getting worse. If you see an air of view side by side They have destroyed it that beautiful bit in front of the Whitehouse, that huge lawn m. They're just setting it up for this massive UFC Now remember cast your mind back to when they said that Zelensky had desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit. And now you just see like he's bulldozed this, he's torn up that, it's paved over this and now this monstrosity. Mutam wrote, It's like a mh family moved in. It really is. I'm surprised he's not hosting Miss World as well because I was just thinking about his treatment of those reporters and that whole sort of smile That's what he wants women to be just standing there in a swimsuit saying, I want real peace, although he's not up for world peace, but Yeah, just you're amazing and he m will hang. And by the way, the UFC arena thing that he's building I don't know that it's going to come down, you know, because it sounds like in this clip, it may well be a permanent fixture. I know that in Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower, eighteen eighty nine was built was supposed to be taken down immediately after the World's Fair. And then they said, you know, we sort of like it Let's leave it up a little bit longer. And then they said, let's leave it up longer and longer and longer Well, they never took it down. and you know, we're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people. It's going to have the big UFC fight on june fourteenth. And I'm looking at it and maybe we'll never, ever take it down O God. Oh go andal He's a vandal and talking of vandals that I mean his whole bloody family are quite frankly. And this is going to bring us ono this extraordinary news about what's been happening in Albania. It's been Albania versus the Trumps. Yeah, so basically Jared Kushner, this is the son in law of Trump, man was brought into bring peace, apparently to the Middle East So he's got a new project He wants to build a six billion dollars luxury resort on a protected Albanian island. so it's the island of Szan and he's going to do that with his wifey. Ivanka Trump. Ivanka yes. and how did they find this beautiful piece of land? Well, oh, by the way, legally protected as well. and at this point Chistine and gorgeous and full of biodiversity and nature. Well, Ivanka and Jared, they were on a friend's boat. It was the Rothschilds ofs so a big boat, big one. And they hopped off for a swim and they had a little hike barefoot to the top of a former Soviet chemical weapons dump and thought, Sa hotel Spy hotel. Y. So Ivank has gone this podcast this week compleompletely out of touch. she comes across almost like alien life form. She is so detached. and she says, We stopped for a swim. effectively, that's how we find it. So they were on a hike. Have a listen to this trarawers? Green Greenwald posted it with a caption The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trunk speaks as if she went on some profound prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorraable treatment by him and by her dad in the exercise of the powers of the American presidency, real uplifting stuff. I'm working on an incredible project with my husband in The Mediterranean, it's massive in scale I think that's an understatement. Can you expl there's no power on this island.re build You're building everything from scratch. Cct. It's an unbelievable, beautiful fourteen hundred hector private island in the middle of the Mediterranean We were on a friend's boat, and we stopped for a swim Eectively, that's how we found it. We swam to the islands, we went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated. and it stayed with us ever since Over the course of many years, we developed the opportunity to help realize its potential and transform it, but with a lot of restraint and care because the land is so beautiful that really the architecture has to be fully integrated into it, almost rise from it You know, it's not even a business for me despite the scale of it. We not only the island, but we have five miles of beachfront directly across from the island, this beautiful peninsula with a lagoon on one side, the ocean on the other, beautiful white sand beaches. For me, this is it feels more like a challenge than anything else. The culmination of all of my Experience in real estate, all of my travel, a lot of reflection on how I want to live. Oh God Could just leave everything alone. That five. Why do you need five miles of beachfront? you freak? So mean sickness. It is a sickness that these people wake up and they still have not got enough Gemma. Yeah, they can't Studied. Mc Brightenstein wrote, We walked barefoot in the natural setting and we were so taken by its beauty that we thought to ourselves How can we destroy this I know. they just got no ense It's interesting, isn't it for conservatives? There's not one thing they want to conserve, just leave it alone. The best thing you could do for the planet is just fuck off. G back on your boat and piss off and take your litter with you. Dem's Might wrote, As gas prices soar across America, with inflation ticking up again, Ivanka Trump spends her sweet time on the podcast talking about how she and Jared are transforming an island into a private real estate project Aacity is insane, just completely out of touch with American society today, and yet they were somehow handed the keys to the White House twice. And meanwhile, you've got Albanian families they're being sort of fenced off beaches where their grandparents would have one day fished And one resident said, Now they're asking us for a visa to enter our own land. And this is why I do wonder, I wonder if the Brits would do this because the Albanians have been protesting in their thousands, thousandousands and thousands. days for days now. They're calling it the Flamingo Revolution. and they're actually waving if you see some of the pictures like Flamingo cutouts Because flamingos actually live on the island that they want to build on slash R destroy. Yeah. Here is a great take on it all actually from Pod S saave America. C love it after the Epstein debacle and with Americans furious about inflation and the economy, wouldould you have encouraged Ivaka Trump to do an interview about buying a private island? It's not a hotel. It'll be a hotel project. She talks about it like she discovered it too. Like the locals are like, no, it's just protected because it's like a bird sanctuary. Yeah Christopher Columb' is over here. You you found an untartered island in the Mediterranean. In the Mediterranean. You think you found someplace the Greeksmith. So the island in question, yeah, it's an uninhabited island in the Adriatic Sea called Szan. Politico reported that Szan sits in a very sensitive coastal area that's home to hundreds of species of birds, pelicans, flamingos, seals, and sea turtle nesting sites. I'm sure they love Ivanka and Jared like just traipsing around. Yeah. So what's the drug deal that got this couple access to the island? So the land was protected. That somehow changed in twenty twenty four and now it's made available for development. And Jared Kushner wants to develop a project that includes Ten thousand hotel rooms. But earlier this week, Albania's anti corruption prosecution office confirmed that they are investigating how these environmental protections were stripped away and the deal got a green light. Interesting. I don't understand these people. I don't understand what motivates them how they wake up every day and decide what they're going to do with their precious time on this earth. They've already stolen so much money all the b. They've already made So much money off Donald Trump being in office. It is so nefarious. They are so rich. They could just be rich for the rest of their lives, but there's something clearly missing. And now they're going what develop this island into a macau of the fucking Mediterranean. L fuck you guys. I could not agree M. It absolutely makes my blood boil beautiful planet and they just don't want to preserve it. They have no respect. they have no sense of soul. They have no idea as well that people hate them. L we hate you. We don't want your disgusting hotel. There are enough hotels in the world. Leave this bit of land alone and go away. go to another hotel. You can afford to go to anyone that you want in the whole world. O their own. They want to build it. They' youve seen some of the CGI images build the hotels like into the mountain Jared Kushner, I think he also tried to do this with Serbia and then the whole deal collapsed because of corruption again, corruption allegations or whatever. But if you look at the positioning of this island, it is of strategically positioned. So there's all question marks about, you, given that he's banklawed by the Saudis, the Miratis, is there something there? Because this island has got three thousand six hundred nuclear bunkers. it's got unexploded weapons bomb shelters. It's got miles of tunnels. It was a strategic military location used by the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire Why do they want it? Why do they need it and also straightw away, you know it's bllers because in fact, I was at a birthday party, a kid's birthday party over the weekend and I got talking to one of the dads who is from Albania iterally I'm by the, Jer, I'm the top of the climb frame And we just started having this conversation. He's at the bottom of the climbing frame. And and then we were there for about twenty minutes wear everything and we got to this. trousers onough trousers He's from Albania. I think he's the island like he can look out. basically he's the mainland but looks out to this island. And he was saying the Albanians will not give up here, but also the idea that they were going for a swim and stumbled upon it and then went ono the island is like for the birds because it's quite sort rocky, jaggedy You can't just like swim up to it and whatever, like cir as well. exactly And if you're walking around, it's not this pristine, lovely, you know, you need crocs. The idea that someone is precious precisely as precious as Ivankka would do that is just what a load of bollocks. And you've got ak Hudos. any Albanians listening, my God, I love your spirit Jake Shields wrote, This should have been America over the Epstein Viles and he said that over videos are just crowds and crowds and crowds and they will not let up. And their country, by the way, has been left behind by sort of communism like went on through to nineteen eighty five, like they were completely isolationist. they're trying to catch up. And now they've got this their PM Eddie Rama, who is clearly like involved in some sort of weird deal, who's not backing down who's not backing down and they're saying, we don't want this. Yeah. And it's hundreds of thousands of people on the street. I thought this I'm just going to shove in this young Albanian woman, her spirit kind of encapsulates the feeling on the streets. As an Albanian, I will tell you why we are rioting. We are rioting because there is no schools, there is no pension for pensioners. There is no hospitals, there is no medicine, there is no parks for kids There is no normal salary. You're telling us you want to build a five star resort to give jobs to Albanians. Mewhile the Albania is filled up with Philippines working for less than what you pay us It's not their fault. They have nothing back home You want to build a five star resort How about you clean up the mess you've made for the last fifteen years We are so tired of you embarrassing us worldwide telling CNN that there's no protest going on. It's fake news, there's no land being rented off. Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump is on an interview saying she discovered an island convenient Two years ago you changed the law And in a protected area now, you can build as long as it attracts tourism And how convenient for Ms Ivanka Trump The land in question has bankkers tunnels and it's in a strategic position for whatever they've got planned Maybe my parents didn't have the strength because they were forced to go somewhere else for their future But me I'm must speak up every chance that I have This is not going to happen under my watch. Mr. Eirama You're done. So that young lady is called it's da Jana on Instagram. So yeah, really, really eloquent. And by the way as well, so they'd already moved in like sort of settlers onto Krishnaers Sazan Island and the Albanians were not fucking around. And I saw a picture and it said Albania is not waiting on midterms and they were literally going and throwing these settlers out. Wouses No mucking about. This conversation, by the way, that I had with his dad, we covered all sorts. And one of the things we covered was the fact that he's got two kids. his new baby is five months old His wife has had to go back to work at five months He works two jobs. he works in hospitality, during the nighttime, he works as developer in the day And his wife had to go back because they just cannot afford anything. And he was just saying how it's so And I was having such a good conversation with him. I just thought, God, we just we were nailing it. and it's all about inequality, right It's all about the fact that it's all hoarded. There was someone posted two headlines side by side and it was basically something like debt grew by something whatever trillion. And then next to it it was like the Uber Rich's wealth grew by something something trillion. And it's like you can literally see the flow of money from one place straight into another. and no one has got the balls to address wealth distribution properly. And these billionaires are out of bloody control Yeah, or of Z so Zen wrote. The fact that billionaires still want more should be studied by the same people who study serial killers. abbsolutely Here's a clip now this is Benton McClintoock who said, Is she the new Christopher Columbus? And this was his take on the whole Avankkor Rather vom inducing interview on that podcast. I'm working on this project in the Mediterranean with my husband. It's massive in scale. I think that's a bit of an understatement. It's a fourteen hundred hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. It's absolutely beautiful It's a completely off grid nature sanctuary, a secluded island that no one's ever discovered, touched, or even seen before. So we were super, super lucky to just happen to find it on one of our annual summer trafficking trips on our friend's boat. We come in to develop the opportunity to help realize this land's potential Everything's for sale if you try hard enough. It's not a business for me, it's a challenge. And it's a collaboration of the greatest masters all over the world. And the way of life that we're building here is really just a tangible manifestation of how people have been dreaming of wanting to live since the dawn of time I mean There's no worirds Bimia Re. I'm so done with them. I'm so done with these people So dumb with, they're just they're parasites. They're chaosites Iideius HeS J Just that the entitlement, there the unawareness Like I said, I think I said earlier, just like no idea how much people just can't stand you. And like you shouldn't have that much power. And one example of this, a Pink News actually wrote, Elon Musk confirms he got into politics because of hisestanged trans daughter, Vivian Wilson. And is that not like a huge warning sign? Luthens's reality wrote, this is exactly why billionaires can't exist This man is burning the entire world down because he cannot accept his daughter for who she is and he has the money to actually do it. No one can have that power. Also it always makes me sort of wonder. it really baffles me when people sort of conflate politics and somebody growing up feeling like they've been born in the wrong body. L how is that political? It's weird. Nothing to do. How's This is' great. how people feel. That's very different to politics should be about your schools and your hes hospitals et ccetera. Yeah Bizarre. Okay, underrated everybody. and yeah, we've got a burst of Marina's favorite music for you because we're about to talk about to talk Mam Danni Oh, this is it, right? We've got not that far away We have got Zan Manddani showing us that when a politician gives a shit when they're not in the pockets of the millionaires and billionaires, they do good things Kaspar wrote, Mamdani is the Democrat's worst nightmare because he's living proof that they're simply not doing their jobs. and that was over a tweet by Isar who wrote, Mamdani closed a twelve billion deficit in one hundred thirty two days, fixed one hundred thousand plus potholes, protected gig workers, fined corrupt landlords millions, raised snow workers' pay to thirty dollars per hour and drove violent crime to historic Lows. Yeah, John Coolins said, I was told he'd bankrupt the city and destroy everything. It seems not. Yeah. And he's on this incredible, incredible run. Liz wrote. Mam Dani is running NYC like a small town mayor in a romance novel and it's so beautiful to see It is, it absolutely is Oh my Godd, I've just seen the next one that Marin has put in. What is this piece of homo erotic art that is before me? Well it's AI slop for a start. Trump is absolutely loving the AI slop. He posts it every day, sometimes through the night. This one though, I don't think he studied the picture properly. This is a genuine post from Donald Trump and Gandalf said he wanted to look tough. He posted a painting of himself surrounded by oiled up shirtless men in tiny shorts waving pom poms. Safe to say, this did not land quite the way he intended. There's another opportunity to say, Happy Pride Month, everybody. Yeah Maybe that was what he was inadvertently doing Wishing everyone happy Pide week maybe, maybe. I like this one from Goose. they wrote, Can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs? Good if AI does. Oh my God, I haven't got time. I'll save it, but I've just saw a brilliant clip today and it takes me back to our Ns episode. I kind of wish we'd had it for then. This young guy was saying he got offered a job. so excited, you know he's young. and then he literally the same week, they resinded it. said I'm so sorry for taking the offer away. it's going to AI. And he made such a vantage point that we did not make in our episode. where he said every time this happens, the treasury is not getting any tax t. It is a disaster. And you've got another person who might end up having to claim Welfare.. It's absolute bullshit. There There's an ad on this tube at the moment. I can't remember the name of the company. But the line, the headline on this ad on the tube is literally emmploying humans, R? Yeah Thank there's got to be a revolution here at some point and there's got to be. Yeah Yeah, The muff report. I found this one. That stupid walk you do when someone's mopping a floor and you know you're gonna to walk over it, but you want them to see how sorry you are to be walking over it. So you make yourself look like you're walking over hot lava Sorry, sorry. Oh justust my tippy toes. We've all done that What is this next one J, I just read it. It's fine. Oh from Fesole. It's from Feshole and it made me giggle. So Fesole is obviously where people do anonymous confessions. And this person put I'm thirty five and I've never owned a vibrator. I just use my hand. Last night my flatmate told me she score eight Now I feel like someone who still dries their clothes in a mangle Very necessary, isn't it? That's very odd. Ver it is a bit odd. It's a collection. I don't really get it you know you do you, You do, you not hurting anyone? Absolutely U them all the same time you might be. but Fel about yourself on that note, let's move to pudding and it is o, I love this one. You're going to love it, Jema because the music wasn' in it. So it's a beautiful pud It's basically the opposite of the billionaires that we've been talking about that just like pillage and destroy. and it is a clip of the legend that was Steve Irwin. Honestly, we did not deserve him. And here it is, it was posted by Animus Ardens with the caption Men are being sold a distorted version of masculinity But this Steve Erwing clip shows what a real man looks like I am know G Good is a fast car a flash house and a gold pl a dunny to me. Absolutely no good at all. I've been put on this planet to protect wildlife and wilderness areas, whichich in essence is going to help humanity. I want to have the purest oceans, I want to be able to drink water straight out of that creek. I want to stock the ozone layer. I want to save the world. And you know, money, money's great. I can't get enough money. And you know what I'm gonna do with it I'm going to buy wilderness areas where every single cent I get goes straight into conservation and guess what, Charles, I don't give a rip whose money it is, mate. I'll use it and I'll spend it on buying land. It was such a gift growing up in Australia and being able to watch Steve Erwyin's shows as a kid. In today's age with all these fake masculine gurus, I think Steve is the perfect embodiment of the masculine man that we should or strive to be
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