October 21, 2025 • 5 mins
Vice President J.D. Vance brushes off a vile GOP group chat as “boys being boys,” Trump pitches a $250M White House makeover complete with a giant golden arch, and Joe Rogan suddenly notices Trump’s immigration policies are… intense. Patrick Gutfield breaks it all down, from political tone-deafness to literal architectural ego. Plus: Korean scientists invent a new kind of ice. No, seriously. It’s called Ice-21 and it’s wild.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caalaroga shark media.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
From Washington, DC, where what we don't need is a
giant arch. This is vallot and Trump is starting to
lose Joe Rogan. It's like LBJ losing Cronkite but stupid.
I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Vice President JD. Vance is out
there defending racist group chats like he's auditioning for most
tone deaf politician of the year. Picture this a bunch
(00:30):
of young Republican kids and buy kids, I mean professionals
in their late twenties and early thirties decide to turn
a group chat into a masterclass of offensive comedy. We're
talking jokes so bad they'd make a comedy club bouncer cringe.
Vance's defense, boys will be boys, except these aren't boys
(00:50):
trading awkward high school jokes. These are grown adults with
government jobs, dropping slurs like they're collecting frequent offender miles.
The chat was the greatest hits offense of content, racial stereotypes,
gay slurs, jokes about gas chambers and slavery. It's like
they took a seminar on how to destroy your career
in one group chat and aced it with flying colors
(01:12):
who were these comedic geniuses, a state senator, a chief
of staff, government officials.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
These aren't random internet trolls. These are people who are
supposed to be representing constituents. Do we think some sort
of racist, misogynist idiot is who we want in charge?
Vance wants us to believe this is just a harmless mistake. Sorry, buddy,
but seven months of documented nonsense isn't a mistake. It's
a lifestyle choice. President Donald Trump is turning the White
(01:40):
House into his personal real estate fever dream, a massive
renovation project that's less presidential upgrade and more dictator's interior
design fantasy, Trump's latest obsession and arc to Trump because
subtlety is for losers. At a billionaire dinner in the
White House, Trump unveiled his grand plans where it's talking.
(02:00):
A two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom with bulletproof
glass walls, a massive architectural monument near the Arlington Memorial Bridge,
a gilded oval office, and a paved over rose garden.
He even created a Presidential Walk of Fame with gold
framed photos of past presidents, conveniently leaving out President Biden.
The arch comes in three sizes, each topped with a
(02:22):
gold Lady Liberty. Trump proudly showed off the models, declaring
he likes the large one because of course he does.
Tech giants and defense contractors are footing the bill. Amazon, Apple, Google,
basically every company you've raged tweeted about are funding this
presidential makeover. The ballroom can host one thousand people and
(02:43):
includes twenty two million dollars from a YouTube settlement. Trump's justification,
real estate is relaxing, he told the room. For the
rest of us, it's like watching a reality show where
the star is both the producer and the only contestant.
His renovations read like a mix between a casino makeover
and a third world dictator's weekend project. The White House
(03:05):
is no longer just a symbol of democracy. It's Trump's
personal monument to himself. Joe Rogan is suddenly shocked by
Donald Trump's immigration policies. Shocked as if Trump didn't spend
the entire twenty twenty four campaign promising exactly this. I
(03:28):
thought they were just going after criminals, Rogan said, which
is basically like saying you invited a wolf to dinner
and are shocked when it starts eating sheep. Trump's immigration
crackdown has been so intense that even his own supporters
are starting to do a double take. Polls show a
fascinating psychological dance where Americans are slowly realizing, wait, he's
actually doing all that crazy stuff he said he would.
(03:51):
Fifty two percent of Americans claimed Trump is doing what
he promised. In February, seventy percent thought he was staying
true to campaign promises. Now it's down to fifty two percent.
Even more wild, one in five Republicans and fifty three
percent of independence are looking around, going, this isn't quite
what we signed up for. It's like ordering a hamburger
(04:12):
and getting an entire cow delivered to your living room.
But there's good news about ice. No, not those guys.
Actual frozen water researchers have officially gone full mad scientist
on water molecules. Imagine being h two oh and suddenly
getting squeezed so hard you transform into a brand new
type of ice. Welcome to ice twenty one, the molecular
(04:35):
equivalent of being told to sit down, shut up, and
completely change your entire molecular structure. Korean scientists basically waterboarded
water into submission using diamond anvil cells that sound more
like Batman's torture devices than scientific equipment. They cranked up
the pressure to two gigapascals, which is scientific speak for
(04:56):
we're going to make water doo things water does not
want to do. The result a new ice phase that
forms at room temperature with molecules packed tighter than commuters
on a rush hour subway. And why to understand icy
moons because apparently understanding Earth wasn't complicated enough translation, We're
doing this because we can and science is awesome. Portions
(05:19):
of today's show were made with the help of H
two O and Ai
Caalaroga shark media.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
From Washington, DC, where what we don't need is a
giant arch. This is vallot and Trump is starting to
lose Joe Rogan. It's like LBJ losing Cronkite but stupid.
I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Vice President JD. Vance is out
there defending racist group chats like he's auditioning for most
tone deaf politician of the year. Picture this a bunch
(00:30):
of young Republican kids and buy kids, I mean professionals
in their late twenties and early thirties decide to turn
a group chat into a masterclass of offensive comedy. We're
talking jokes so bad they'd make a comedy club bouncer cringe.
Vance's defense, boys will be boys, except these aren't boys
(00:50):
trading awkward high school jokes. These are grown adults with
government jobs, dropping slurs like they're collecting frequent offender miles.
The chat was the greatest hits offense of content, racial stereotypes,
gay slurs, jokes about gas chambers and slavery. It's like
they took a seminar on how to destroy your career
in one group chat and aced it with flying colors
(01:12):
who were these comedic geniuses, a state senator, a chief
of staff, government officials.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
These aren't random internet trolls. These are people who are
supposed to be representing constituents. Do we think some sort
of racist, misogynist idiot is who we want in charge?
Vance wants us to believe this is just a harmless mistake. Sorry, buddy,
but seven months of documented nonsense isn't a mistake. It's
a lifestyle choice. President Donald Trump is turning the White
(01:40):
House into his personal real estate fever dream, a massive
renovation project that's less presidential upgrade and more dictator's interior
design fantasy, Trump's latest obsession and arc to Trump because
subtlety is for losers. At a billionaire dinner in the
White House, Trump unveiled his grand plans where it's talking.
(02:00):
A two hundred and fifty million dollar ballroom with bulletproof
glass walls, a massive architectural monument near the Arlington Memorial Bridge,
a gilded oval office, and a paved over rose garden.
He even created a Presidential Walk of Fame with gold
framed photos of past presidents, conveniently leaving out President Biden.
The arch comes in three sizes, each topped with a
(02:22):
gold Lady Liberty. Trump proudly showed off the models, declaring
he likes the large one because of course he does.
Tech giants and defense contractors are footing the bill. Amazon, Apple, Google,
basically every company you've raged tweeted about are funding this
presidential makeover. The ballroom can host one thousand people and
(02:43):
includes twenty two million dollars from a YouTube settlement. Trump's justification,
real estate is relaxing, he told the room. For the
rest of us, it's like watching a reality show where
the star is both the producer and the only contestant.
His renovations read like a mix between a casino makeover
and a third world dictator's weekend project. The White House
(03:05):
is no longer just a symbol of democracy. It's Trump's
personal monument to himself. Joe Rogan is suddenly shocked by
Donald Trump's immigration policies. Shocked as if Trump didn't spend
the entire twenty twenty four campaign promising exactly this. I
(03:28):
thought they were just going after criminals, Rogan said, which
is basically like saying you invited a wolf to dinner
and are shocked when it starts eating sheep. Trump's immigration
crackdown has been so intense that even his own supporters
are starting to do a double take. Polls show a
fascinating psychological dance where Americans are slowly realizing, wait, he's
actually doing all that crazy stuff he said he would.
(03:51):
Fifty two percent of Americans claimed Trump is doing what
he promised. In February, seventy percent thought he was staying
true to campaign promises. Now it's down to fifty two percent.
Even more wild, one in five Republicans and fifty three
percent of independence are looking around, going, this isn't quite
what we signed up for. It's like ordering a hamburger
(04:12):
and getting an entire cow delivered to your living room.
But there's good news about ice. No, not those guys.
Actual frozen water researchers have officially gone full mad scientist
on water molecules. Imagine being h two oh and suddenly
getting squeezed so hard you transform into a brand new
type of ice. Welcome to ice twenty one, the molecular
(04:35):
equivalent of being told to sit down, shut up, and
completely change your entire molecular structure. Korean scientists basically waterboarded
water into submission using diamond anvil cells that sound more
like Batman's torture devices than scientific equipment. They cranked up
the pressure to two gigapascals, which is scientific speak for
(04:56):
we're going to make water doo things water does not
want to do. The result a new ice phase that
forms at room temperature with molecules packed tighter than commuters
on a rush hour subway. And why to understand icy
moons because apparently understanding Earth wasn't complicated enough translation, We're
doing this because we can and science is awesome. Portions
(05:19):
of today's show were made with the help of H
two O and Ai
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