August 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Putin's meeting with Trump & the fight!
- Wasting time at work
- Drone manager, inflation news & carnivore babies
- How to end the Ukraine/Russia war
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arms Strong
and get.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Katy and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty. That's great.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I mean, it was interesting to see him kind of
walk through his thinking around this meeting, and he's clearly
coming into it in a different headspace than he was
the last time the two men sat down. He now acknowledges,
at least to some extent, that Putin has strung him along.
He says, know that Putin is the reason that there
has been no end to this crisis, and he acknowledged
(00:46):
that he's not sure what's going to come out of
this sit down.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
As I liked her saying that, or I'm happy to
hear that. I hope it's true, and sticks that Trump
has acknowledged that Putin is the reason this war is
still going on. Because my concern is he meets with
Putin and comes out, uh, you know, Friday afternoon or
Saturday morning, and starts really leaning on Zelensky. The reason
we can't get peace is Zelensky is just too angry.
(01:11):
He did say the other day, is Zelensky's been there
for three years and hasn't accomplished anything. What how what
was he supposed to accomplish in terms of a peace
deal as he's tell us over the last three years. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
At the same time, the Kremlin's putting on a full
court press. That I mean, for instance, here's one Putin
aid senior aide, Neo cons and other warmongers won't be
smiling when the two leaders meet. The Putin Trump dialogue
will bring hope, peace and global security. Though the Ukrainian
question has been declared to be the main item of
the agenda, much more important global issues are going to
(01:44):
be raised, according to other senior advisors to Putin, including
uh da da da da duh Uh there it is
uh ambitious plans for economic and infrastructure cooperation in the Arctic,
among other things. So they are now trying to cast
it as oh, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about Ukraine. But
(02:04):
this is time, this is the time for the great
reset on all sorts of issues before the between the
US and Russia.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
To my mind, thereby dangling is a.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Prize for Trump, the ability to do what Obama and
Hillary and Biden and everybody else could not do, reset
relations with Russia.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, we talked about this at length in our one,
So if you're interested in you want to catch that,
you can go to the podcast Armstrong and get you
on demand. I think that maybe the one of the
big unknowns hanging out there is does Europe find its
balls its testicles and decide, Yeah, this is our We.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Know what you meant by balls. We were good, we're solid.
But go on place.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Cohenny's kohen Cohenne.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's gonads, if you will, it's sperm producing organs that
generally hang on the mail.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Go on, yes, please please? Hitler had one.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, that's a myth, but go.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Does Europe decide we've gotten economy as big as the
United States. We've got five hundred million people here that
are in the backyard of Russia. How about we decide
what the terms are going to be for an agreement
with Russia instead of the United States. Fine, go ahead,
that'd be awesome. I would love that. I think Trump
would love that. But are they going to or are
they just going to sit back and passively? Let imagine
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imagine letting some other country, even if it is the
dominant United States, letting some under other countries so far
away come in and take care of this right.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
If we were having it just a brutal dispute with
say Mexico, France would fly in and say, all right,
here's how it's gonna be right. But to can you
continue your delightful metaphor? The problem with Europe is they've
got like twenty three different sets of gonads, of various
sizes and shapes, and they don't agree on munch.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They pretend to, but they don't really.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Right. So when we talk about Europe, we already said
this earlier, but were in terms of standing up to Russia,
it would really be Germany, France, England and Poland probably
it'd be the main main people.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
But the the Baltic states as well. You don't have
a Sensland's always good to count on too, but.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't have a sense of their economies and power,
because well that was one thing that God. There's a
quote from George Schultz, if you're old enough to remember
George Schultze, he is one of the great diplomats of
the Reagan era or whatever, talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Like a cartoon bloodhound smart man, though he did look
like a cartoon bloodhount.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Didn't we meet him once and do something with him.
I think we did.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But he has a quote about this sort of negotiation
where unless it's just a capitulation by one side, there
has to be some sort of power to force the
agreement by one side or the other, or a third
party like the United States. I mean, that's what we're
trying to do with our you know, tariffs, penalties on
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India for their oil and that sort of thing that
would hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Rush, arms, shipments and the rest of it. Sure is.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And so the point of this quote was, is Europe
going to bring to bear any forcing mechanism, any power
to this so they can take control of the situation,
with the main thing being something they talked about up
until a month ago. Putting a hundred thousand troops in there,
and France and Germany and Britain, we're talking about their
own troops there in Ukraine is a trip wire. Okay,
(05:33):
then that's what's going to establish the peace deal. If
they're willing to do that, then they've got some leverage.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Trump Putin does not want that, right, and the Euros
are not willing to do it. Therefore we must snatch
putin the moment he steps on Americas so good transition.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So we brought up the idea or I asked, like
a like a dullard that I am as a why
don't we just nab the war criminals coming to the
United States? Why don't we just say you're under arrest,
you take him to Washington, zc. Or wherever you're gonna
take him and put him on trial for crimes against
the globe and and yeah, lock him on arms. And
I I was asking what would be the Well, first
(06:12):
of all, how difficult would that be to do? And
then secondly you've got what what would be the repercussions
from that? How would the world react? I feel like
a lot of the world would love to have Putin
off the stage. I feel like maybe the people below
him in Russia would say, oh cool, now we can
get out of Ukraine and go back to running our oligarchy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
But at the same time, the idea of snatching up
foreign leaders that you have invited for a visit you
want to talk.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
About no, no, no, no no no no no no. It
was Putin's idea. Putin's idea was Alaska. It was his
idea to meet with Trump, and is his idea to
meet in Alaska. You want to come to Alaska? Yeah, yeah,
I think we could work that out.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, what day?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Friday? Saturday?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How about Friday?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Let's make it earlier anyway. So I talked to somebody
very familiar with security for these sorts of things, like actually,
has you know walked the walk on this sort of
thing around the globe. We were wondering about the security,
like does Putin get to bring his own, you know,
Secret Service basically? And then we got our Secret Service
and has everybody armed to the teeth? From what I'm
(07:14):
told by an expert, Putin brings an arm to detail, Yes,
and we provide him Secret Service protection. That's part of
what the Secret Service does. And then given how close
the summit is in Alaska to Russia, one would be
rightly concerned. This is about snatching up Putin and arresting him,
one would be rightly concerned about a military response from Russia,
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which is next door. They would have a security room
probably there at the meeting too, and would start advising
the military if he was apprehended. It could be done,
but it would, but it would obviously be beyond the
Norman would set a terrible precedent for the world. Let's
skip over that part. This person said, if I was
planning how to do it, you got to knock out
(07:56):
all the communications there, kill the security detail, putin security
detail immediately. You'd have to then get get him as
far away from alask as possible. That'd be the only
way to pull it off.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Well, yeah, yeah, I would agree, having been studying the
methods for dealing with foreign leaders in their security needs
when they come to the United States. But get him
as far away from Alaska as possible. Yeah, okay, all right,
Well we've got great jets and all. What Connecticut, I
don't Maine, what would that Miami Beach? Take him to
Miami Beach.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, you kill a security detail, you got him on
a helicopter, you get him to a plane, you get
him out of there fast.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And then have Dick Cheney take over you know, one
of those black sites.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right. Somebody did point out on the text line yesterday,
and I'm happy about this. We are not a signator
to the international court that declares who's a war criminal.
We do not sign that because otherwise these other freaking
weird old countries would decide Dick Cheney was a war criminal.
And then he shows up in Paris for some meeting
and he'd be arrested right right because of something with
(09:03):
Israel or who knows what. So we don't even believe
in that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So, being curious about this whole topic, Guy dug into
it a little bit and came up with some pretty
interesting information.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And yeah, and Jack said, when a foreign.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Head of state or government visits the US, they almost
always bring their own security detail with them. Those agents
are responsible for the leader's personal safety, often travel with
them on the same plane. They are physically very very
close to the leader. The US Secret Service is still
in charge. They have primary responsibility for protecting foreign dignitaries
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who or visiting. The visiting security team works closely with
the Secret Service, cannot operate independently. They coordinate roots, venues
and security perimeters together. They usually carry firearms only after
special permissions and credentialings. In practice, the US Secret Service
handles the outer perimeter like I don't know, aluminum shed,
(09:58):
with a clear line of sight to the President and
the and the overall security plan. Well. The foreign detail
stays physically close to the leader, like right at their
side in public. And then I was digging into this
on chat GPT, which is a great resource except when.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It lies to you. Can you imagine that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
If that ever went sideways though for some reason, and
you got the arm to the teeth of Russian dudes
with the arm to the teeth US Secret Service both
protecting their each of the man, that would be quite
the scene. As I told my source yesterday, I said,
somebody's got to write this movie because that is an
interesting scene.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I saw a similar scene that happened to be a
couple of criminal organizations battling it out in the drama
Judy and I were watching. But yeah, it would be
it would be a blood path anyway. But it said,
I can give you real example of how this plays
out when say the British Prime Minister visits, And I said, no,
I'm more interested in an example where it's a foreign
leader of an adversary like China, and chat GPT told
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me when it's an adversary nation like China, the dynamic
it's much more sensitive, but the basic structure is the same.
And I probably should have read about Putin, but it
was funny. Shixinping was the first person to come to
mind because he's been recently, though. My favorite part was
coordination is tense but formal. The two security teams meet
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in advance, exchange very limited plans, agree on roots, motivate structures,
who stands where. The Chinese security team in this case,
and I'm sure Russia is the same, will usually insist
on driving in their own armored vehicles brought from China,
sometimes flown in with the delegation.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Weapons and legal permissions are tightly restricted. Extra surveillance on
both sides. US counterintelligence teams, FBI, Diplomatic Security Service, and
others will monitor the foreign security personnel closely, not just
for safety but also to prevent or detect espionage. The
foreign team may also be running its own counter surveillance
to spot potential threats or track where US personnel are.
(11:58):
And they actually go into the Chinese visit to Seattle
and Washington, d C. In twenty fifteen, and it's, uh,
it's interesting, and it's certainly the stuff of movies.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
But they break down further, step by step from the
inside out what the security is. And I'll just hitch
you with the close in the inner ring of security.
In the case of China, it would be the Chinese
Central Security Bureau. With Russia, it would be probably some
branch of the FSB. I don't know, but they're within
arms reach, often two to six agents who move with
leader at all times. Leader at all times, immediate protection
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from sudden attacks, physical shielding, or rapid.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Evacuation, you know what.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
These are the only foreign agents who might be armed
in the US. My favorite question, I feel like we've
talked about this before and I don't remember who it
was with. But how crazy. So if if Trump swung
on Poutin or Putin swung on Trump and they're rolling
actual fisticuffs, Okay, if they're rolling around on the floor
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ror like gouging each other's eyes and stuff like that,
who does what what happens?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I guess?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, so unlikely we're pitting a fat, old real estate
developer against an old kg B assassin.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Trump's weight ain't nothing, though, you know. Trump's taller and heavier.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
By a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, I don't see him moving fast enough to prevent
Putin putting a thumb clear to the back of his
eye socket and his Eyeball right, it isn't gonna be
like a hockey.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Match, though, I think where they all just back off
and let him fight. I mean, I assume the various
security details would get involved. I just don't know how
it would look. They're just gonna back off and let
him fight, let him work it out to be like
hockey refs. They'll just offer and they'll wait till somebody's
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
They're really getting hell being out of them.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, we got more next, So this is the top
five ways people slack at work.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Number five we have the hour before lunch, I'm hungry.
All I'm thinking about is I want to get the
hell out of here. Number four the hour directly after
a meeting. Paying attention during the meeting has absolutely cooked me.
Number three the hour after lunch, I'm depressed. All I
can think about now is how badly I want to
have a nap. Number two the first hour of the day,
quick socialized with the colleagues. Immediately looking to get a coffee.
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I might turn my computer on and see if I
got an e urge of emails. Number one the last
hour of the day. I busted my ass all day.
Now it's time for me to start wrapping things up
and look for the exit door.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, to clarify, obviously, it's the top five hours of
the day out of eight that you're going to waste
at work.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So if you I don't know about the meeting one,
but the other one's the hour before you end, you
could easily get into like short timers mode every day.
The first hour, you know, selling there's.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
No point in starting something that you know rises you know,
I'll start it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And that first hour you're settling in, you're checking some emails,
some of them are personal, A lot of them are personal,
most of them are personal. And then before you get
around to your work, so now you've already killed two hours,
and then you got that hour after lunch where oh
I should eat so much, I'm so tired.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It can easily be three hours of every day where
you're not very productive, which leaves you five.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So I dug back into the whole security detail thing
with Russian examples, and I will tell you this practically guaranteed.
The Secret Service that is in charge of this sort
of thing is frantic right now because to have Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Was it the bearing straight between Russia and the US.
I mean it's a few dozen miles separating the two comes.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
How why is the bearing straight, Katie or how close?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I think they said something like they're fifty five miles
apart at the Diomede Islands, Russia and the United States.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
At its narrow ast, it's fifty one.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
So you got Putin's personal protection that comes from the
Federal Protective Service, extremely tense and careful negotiations with his
armed bodyguards, his advanced teams, scouting every location. The FSO
is highly insulurred, deeply distrustful of foreign security services, especially
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in the US. They'd want to physically control every interaction
Putin has in spite of the fact that the Social
Security I'm sorry, the Secret Service would be in charge.
Heavy counter intelligence presence of the FBI in all directions, just.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Very tense.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I wonder how much nipers from both sides, the latter
being closely monitored in and restricted in position so that
nobody could get snatched up. Wow, of course it's the uh,
it's what they talk about that matters. That's going to
come out of that thing. Inflation numbers came out. We'll
talk about those days.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Israeli Company Defend Solutions CEO Zohar Halajmi says even off
the shelf drones can now be easily outfitted to drop
grenades or carry explosives. It is the latest concern of
lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they're calling for greater coordination
from federal agencies to protect large events like the twenty
twenty six World Cup and twenty twenty eight Olympics in
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Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Where the hell would I get a grenade? Though I
suppose the evil doers would have grenades, so now I
don't know. Amazon, So all you need to do is
get a hold of some sort of explosive. You can
buy a drone anywhere and then fly it over whatever
event drop. I mean, that's it's inevitable.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Right, what a world.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
So inflation news came out today and there's a lot
of concern about back on Liberation Day that there is
going to be horrifying inflation because of the tariffs. Well
a lot of the tariffs got backed off until recently,
so we haven't had the inflation we thought, YadA, YadA, YadA. Anyway,
it's interesting how the three main newspapers in America's headlines
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can be different. Wall Street Journal inflation held steady at
two point seven percent, and right underneath it it says
now rises after inflation report, which suggests good news. Right.
The New York Times, however, their headline is US inflation
report shows effects of President Trump's tariffs. Okay, that's not
(18:52):
at all what they said in the Wall Street drumk.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Wow, that's a leap. Those people are shameless.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And then the Washington Post most fairly non committal also.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
But he hang on a say, how does it staying
the same show the effects of Trump's tariffs?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Because well, they didn't all know it was going to
go down. Miss I complained about this earlier. But so
they always hit you with the main inflation number in
these publications, and then they say in the second paragraph,
of course the number that economists pay attention to is
the core inflation, and that actually went up a little bit.
And my question would be, if this is the number
that matters the most, then why isn't it the main number?
(19:30):
Why are you giving me some other number and then
telling me this isn't really important, though, here's the number
that's important. And then it went up a little bit
and they're blaming that on tariffs. Wow, but it just
went up a tiny bit.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
M hmm, whatever, you know, speaking of money, this is
one of my favorite stories of the day, and it
is utterly unnoticed. You probably will not hear it from
anybody but us. But in Texas, where they're doing a
lot of good stuff with conservative governing, they they've.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Past is that they've passed a law.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Oh, it's a priority for this month's special session of
the legislature, and it has to do with something we've
talked about for years, and it's one of my favorite themes.
That is, when the government excess itself becomes so big
and powerful, it becomes its own most important lobbyist. We're
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doomed if the very you know, machine of government decides,
you know, feeding ourselves is what.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We're really about.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And guess what we're right laws, we're doomed. So we're
probably doomed.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
And as John the excellent John Fund rates in the
National Review, one of the biggest obstacles to government reform
is bureaucracies using taxpayer dollars to lobby for higher taxes
than spending in a perpetual motion of big government growth. Particular,
that's exactly what I'm talking about. A long time problem
in Texas where County cities and even universities send armies
of labbyists to the legislature and stemy good fiscal policy.
(21:03):
Now we're finally seeing some progress and curbing this problem.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has had enough. He's made curbing
taxpayer funded lobbying a priority for this month's special session
of legislature. The state Senate has approved a bill that
would prevent cities, counties, and school districts from spending taxpayer
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dollars to hire outside lobbyists. Wow, there's a state senator
who's a former county tax assessories observed local officials abused
their offices. He's a key supporter of the bill, he argued,
quote quote, Texans are being taxed twice, once to fund
local services and again to fund political lobbying they may
not support. He cited a report by the Texas Public
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Policy Foundation that estimates that in twenty twenty three, local
governments spent almost ninety nine million dollars to hire contract lobbyists,
which is a significant increase from a couple of years before.
Another sponsor the bill emphasizes that it would do nothing
to restrict local officials' ability to lobby. The state legislature themselves.
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He said, we just don't need a taxpayer funded lobbyist
middleman between our elected local officials and our elected state officials.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
This is.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
A more important version of one of our favorite things
that ever happened on our radio show, when one time
we ran two back to back PSAs government PSAs, so
paid for by the taxpayer. Those are public service announcements,
one suggesting you eat less dairy because it's bad for you,
and then your taxpayer money on the next PSA explaining
(22:39):
how you should eat more cheese. So one of them
eat less cheese, one of them eat more cheese for
prior tax money.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Oh my god, Hey, you got a laugh to keep
from crying. Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
But if you got taxpayer money going out and lobbying
for things that are the government, I mean, it's a
similar sort of deal.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That reminds me.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
The new trend you need to know about this hour,
because there will be another one next hour is.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Carnivore babies.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Swapping puade fruit for ribbi, the rise of animal heavy
diets for infants and toddlers, concerns and perplexes pediatricians.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Boy, I don't remember how much meat did my baby
eat anny? I don't remember. Do you feed a baby meat?
I don't even remember you do some.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You know, I can skip to the end of this.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Look, if you're a diet craze person, and I've known
a lot that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I feel like that, like jump on the new bandwagon
all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Or at least semi frequently. M Yeah, they're very enthusiastic
about diet A. Then it's B, then it's C, then
it's D. And I think we've all worked with multiple
people like that. Some of them were very bright and
capable people. If you want to do that eating nothing
but meat and then go gluten free and then have
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nothing but whole grains or whatever, and then.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Nothing bigger through the lens diet, nothing bigger than the
size of your fist, or only cave man ache cards or.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
A caveman diet or what go ahead, go ahead, but
you're gonna do it to your infant.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Daria Quinnville's infant daughter was ready for solid food, but
she skipped the mushed up avocado and banana on the menu,
instead raw egg yolk and puade chicken liver. Her child's
Schizandra then moved on to sardines, butter, and ice pops
made out of bone broth. She gnawed on a leg
of lamb.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
She would just teeth on it and soothe herself. Freaking
bone broth people, You bone broth people wear me out.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
She isandras what her mom calls a carnivore baby.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Meat.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's right, sir. Most of her diet is meat, along
with other animal source foods like eggs and and of
course oh oh.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Some parents, Uh oh, here you go. Here's the good part.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
With the carnivore diet rising in popularity among adults, babies
and toddlers are getting in on it too, like they're
deciding to mom swap tips. Think directions for whipped bone
marrow on Facebook forums with names like Carnivore motherhood.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
If you say bone marrow to me, I exactly know
what sort of person you are. That's all I need
to hear is those two words. I know what. I
know so much about you. If you say the two
words bone marrow.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I don't know what the bone barrow does for you,
but it makes my ass tired.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That's the effect of that has of it.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Some parents say they're inspired by social media stars. A
handful of doctors who are raising their own carnivore babies
have YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands, even millions of subscribers.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You like the bone marrow Okay, you wore a mask
long beyond necessary, and we're all for the schools being
closed down and voting for Kamala Harrison like mom Donnie,
and all kinds of other things that go with bone marrow.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a carnivore champion, has
loudly expressed as affinity for beef tallo. Yeah, the inevitable.
Some pediatricians are very concerned. Small children need vitamin C,
they need fiber, they need this, that and the other
for a functioning gut biome that are not prevalent and
meat heavy diet. Here's the crazy part, and this is
(26:27):
never going to be an effing craze.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Pardon me, but this sort of thing makes.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Me nuts because people want the super super simple. I
get the appeal of it on the chalkboard. No, all
I eat is this, and that's the way. Because a
caveman used to blah blah blah blah blah. No, you
know what cavemen probably eat plenty of leafy greens and
berries whenever they found them. Anyway, it's got to be
(26:54):
just super simple for people to get it. But virtually
every responsible doctor they talked to said, yeah, the protein's
good for the kid, but it needs this and that
and the other.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
How about you go for a balanced diet. Yeah, and
your child, Schizandra, Yeah, I understand weight loss crazes because
you're desperate to lose weight and you're hoping that this
new one is going to work and the other ones didn't.
Reality is, most studies have shown the one you stick
with is the one that works. So go with whichever
(27:25):
one you can keep doing. But uh, for your kid,
who doesn't need to lose weight, I don't know why
you get into a craze.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
So this this might have been my favorite part of
this article. Carnivor babies tend to have carnivore moms. Lorraine
b was trying to get pregnant when she stumbled upon
YouTube videos from doctors promoting meat based diets for fertility.
As a registered dietitian, you're herself, Yeah, I'm glad they
make them register, you know, like sex offenders. They ought
(27:54):
to be on some sort of registry somewhere a bunch
of craze, pitch and nut jobs. Not all of you,
not all of you. All right, go ahead write your
angry email anyway. So, as a registered dietitian herself, she
was skeptical about the meat based fertility diets.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I said, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Then she became obsessed, watching hours of videos a day
and devouring comments from women who said eating only animal
foods helped them conceive. So she went mostly carnivore two
and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And didn't get pregnant, so they adopted a kid.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But she's stuck on the carnivore diet now feeding it
to her a kid.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
There needs to be a law in journalism against finding
a nut job and then building an entire article around it.
That's like half of journalism in the modern world. So
she got obsessed with it and watched hours of videos
a day. That's not normal, and then it didn't want
to her any good. That's completely abnormal.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Top But because she's a simpleton that needs to latch
onto the overly simple solution, she's stuck with it in
spite of lack of results, and now has become a
carnivore mom. Final note, her little girl is of course
on a carnivore style diet too. If it makes sense
for adults, why wouldn't it make sense for kids? She said,
as a licensed dietitian. She spoke those words aloud, registered dietitian.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That's right, put them on our registry.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Isabella eats bits of eggs, shredded cheese, yogurt, and puade,
ground beef and chicken liver. She licks butter off a
spoon bunch of butter lickors and gets bone broth in
her bottle. There you go, there's your bone broth. The
tablo has four teeth, likes to gum, ribbis and lambones.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
All right, great, good for you. Oh my god, Sahn
plug the internet?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, I think the internet might kill off trends, which
would be a good thing, mostly because I saw the
Wall Street Journal the other day had in their fashion
section the return of skinny jeans. Now, as far as
I can tell, skinny jeans left like six months ago,
and they've returned already, so most yeah, so, I mean
it's even last week. If something returns that fast, maybe
(30:06):
it'll just be the end of trends.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Well, right, you'd like to be a slavish follower of
whatever's hot. But you literally don't have time to get
to the store before.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That trend is over this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Right, Yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
God, how many years ago was it that Chris Rock
said here today, gone today? But that was like twenty
years ago, and he said that it's way more that
now than it was then.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Hilarious, trends are over by the time you speak the
sentence required to describe them.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, you and your bone.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Bag, all right, k f y b BB, keep feeding
your baby bone broth all right?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
More all the way, stare.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I think everybody knows that how this war ends, it
can be a good thing or bad thing.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
If it ends in a way.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
It looks like that Putin's overly rewarded.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
There goes Taiwan.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
You can't end a war without talking. I do hope
that Zelenski can be part of the process. I'll leave
it up to the White House, but I come on
your show a good bit. I want to be honest
with you. Ukraine's not gonna evict every Russia Russian and
Russia is not going to keep so there'll be some
land swaps at the end.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah. Well, Putin's trying to have more land swap. So
this is breaking news. Moscow troops make massive advance in
Ukraine days before the summit. They are now six miles
further in than they were two days ago and have
surrounded three more towns that they did not have control
of seventy two hours ago.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
And they want is a master stroke by the master manipulator.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Well plus, if it's gonna end up being a like
the rmbassador, the US Master to NATO, to the U
n whoever it was one of our investors, I think
our ambassador to NATO said, you don't get to have
any land that you haven't fought foreign control. Well he was,
He's going to fight foreign control as much land as
he can before maybe some sort of offer. I have
(32:14):
no idea.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, expend whatever he has to expend right now to
a snatch up as much land as possible, having been
told by our NATO ambassador what he needed to do
to keep the land. Nice job, and secondly make it
clear that a I'll grab it all. Look how much
ground I've gained in the last couple of weeks unless
(32:35):
you give it you know, these regions to me that
I'm asking for, or I will go nuts and take
it all, and you know, Trump might say, yeah, it's
better for Ukraine if we settle right now. So Putin
wins a lot. This is not all the time, but
he wins a lot because he's brutal.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
He's absolutely brutal. Bullies always win a lot until somebody
is willing to stand up to them. That's just the
history of bullies. This is one of the When has
there been a high level meeting with more drama than
this one? I can't know if I can remember one.
You might have to go back to the Cold War.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
But even then, they didn't have big meetings unless most
of the agenda was already set.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You already knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Right, it was just a ceremonial with maybe a couple
of details to be hashed out. But I mean this
is like all question marks.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right, and personalities or tempers or whatever could flare. I mean,
it could have an impact, right, absolutely could. Trump said
yesterday he will call Zelensky. First first thing he'll do
is when he comes out of the meeting, he'll call,
he said, as a as a sign of respect, I'll
(33:52):
I'll call Zelensky right away. So man, So let's he's
got to be waiting by the phone for that one.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
What if our listeners suggested a convincing bald eagle like
drone flying in through a window and taking Putin out?
I don't think we can rule that out.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I mentioned something earlier about Dick Cheney being a war
criminal according to the rest of the world. We got
this text, Dick Cheney is a war criminal. You chirping minstrels.
Oh wow, wow, chirping minstrels.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's one of my favorite insults ever.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
As you spoke those words, I thought, well, you know,
there's some argument that but chirping minstrels style points. Well done,
sir or madam.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Hey, do we have a time on the summit with
Putin and Trump yet? In Alaska and then I don't know,
there're time zone. We ought to nail a lot of
that down because I would like to know when I'm
gonna start getting drips and drabs of news coming out
of that.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah, Alaska has its own like funky far West time zone, right,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I don't know it's it. It's part of the United States.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I want to get a little more into Russia's probably
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Katy and he.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Armstrong and Getty. That's great.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I mean, it was interesting to see him kind of
walk through his thinking around this meeting, and he's clearly
coming into it in a different headspace than he was
the last time the two men sat down. He now acknowledges,
at least to some extent, that Putin has strung him along.
He says, know that Putin is the reason that there
has been no end to this crisis, and he acknowledged
(00:46):
that he's not sure what's going to come out of
this sit down.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
As I liked her saying that, or I'm happy to
hear that. I hope it's true, and sticks that Trump
has acknowledged that Putin is the reason this war is
still going on. Because my concern is he meets with
Putin and comes out, uh, you know, Friday afternoon or
Saturday morning, and starts really leaning on Zelensky. The reason
we can't get peace is Zelensky is just too angry.
(01:11):
He did say the other day, is Zelensky's been there
for three years and hasn't accomplished anything. What how what
was he supposed to accomplish in terms of a peace
deal as he's tell us over the last three years. Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
At the same time, the Kremlin's putting on a full
court press. That I mean, for instance, here's one Putin
aid senior aide, Neo cons and other warmongers won't be
smiling when the two leaders meet. The Putin Trump dialogue
will bring hope, peace and global security. Though the Ukrainian
question has been declared to be the main item of
the agenda, much more important global issues are going to
(01:44):
be raised, according to other senior advisors to Putin, including
uh da da da da duh Uh there it is
uh ambitious plans for economic and infrastructure cooperation in the Arctic,
among other things. So they are now trying to cast
it as oh, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about Ukraine. But
(02:04):
this is time, this is the time for the great
reset on all sorts of issues before the between the
US and Russia.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
To my mind, thereby dangling is a.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Prize for Trump, the ability to do what Obama and
Hillary and Biden and everybody else could not do, reset
relations with Russia.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well, we talked about this at length in our one,
So if you're interested in you want to catch that,
you can go to the podcast Armstrong and get you
on demand. I think that maybe the one of the
big unknowns hanging out there is does Europe find its
balls its testicles and decide, Yeah, this is our We.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Know what you meant by balls. We were good, we're solid.
But go on place.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Cohenny's kohen Cohenne.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
It's gonads, if you will, it's sperm producing organs that
generally hang on the mail.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Go on, yes, please please? Hitler had one.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
No, that's a myth, but go.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Does Europe decide we've gotten economy as big as the
United States. We've got five hundred million people here that
are in the backyard of Russia. How about we decide
what the terms are going to be for an agreement
with Russia instead of the United States. Fine, go ahead,
that'd be awesome. I would love that. I think Trump
would love that. But are they going to or are
they just going to sit back and passively? Let imagine
(03:26):
imagine letting some other country, even if it is the
dominant United States, letting some under other countries so far
away come in and take care of this right.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
If we were having it just a brutal dispute with
say Mexico, France would fly in and say, all right,
here's how it's gonna be right. But to can you
continue your delightful metaphor? The problem with Europe is they've
got like twenty three different sets of gonads, of various
sizes and shapes, and they don't agree on munch.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
They pretend to, but they don't really.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Right. So when we talk about Europe, we already said
this earlier, but were in terms of standing up to Russia,
it would really be Germany, France, England and Poland probably
it'd be the main main people.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
But the the Baltic states as well. You don't have
a Sensland's always good to count on too, but.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't have a sense of their economies and power,
because well that was one thing that God. There's a
quote from George Schultz, if you're old enough to remember
George Schultze, he is one of the great diplomats of
the Reagan era or whatever, talking about.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Like a cartoon bloodhound smart man, though he did look
like a cartoon bloodhount.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Didn't we meet him once and do something with him.
I think we did.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But he has a quote about this sort of negotiation
where unless it's just a capitulation by one side, there
has to be some sort of power to force the
agreement by one side or the other, or a third
party like the United States. I mean, that's what we're
trying to do with our you know, tariffs, penalties on
(05:04):
India for their oil and that sort of thing that
would hurt.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Rush, arms, shipments and the rest of it. Sure is.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
And so the point of this quote was, is Europe
going to bring to bear any forcing mechanism, any power
to this so they can take control of the situation,
with the main thing being something they talked about up
until a month ago. Putting a hundred thousand troops in there,
and France and Germany and Britain, we're talking about their
own troops there in Ukraine is a trip wire. Okay,
(05:33):
then that's what's going to establish the peace deal. If
they're willing to do that, then they've got some leverage.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Trump Putin does not want that, right, and the Euros
are not willing to do it. Therefore we must snatch
putin the moment he steps on Americas so good transition.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So we brought up the idea or I asked, like
a like a dullard that I am as a why
don't we just nab the war criminals coming to the
United States? Why don't we just say you're under arrest,
you take him to Washington, zc. Or wherever you're gonna
take him and put him on trial for crimes against
the globe and and yeah, lock him on arms. And
I I was asking what would be the Well, first
(06:12):
of all, how difficult would that be to do? And
then secondly you've got what what would be the repercussions
from that? How would the world react? I feel like
a lot of the world would love to have Putin
off the stage. I feel like maybe the people below
him in Russia would say, oh cool, now we can
get out of Ukraine and go back to running our oligarchy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
But at the same time, the idea of snatching up
foreign leaders that you have invited for a visit you
want to talk.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
About no, no, no, no no no no no no. It
was Putin's idea. Putin's idea was Alaska. It was his
idea to meet with Trump, and is his idea to
meet in Alaska. You want to come to Alaska? Yeah, yeah,
I think we could work that out.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, what day?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Friday? Saturday?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How about Friday?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Let's make it earlier anyway. So I talked to somebody
very familiar with security for these sorts of things, like actually,
has you know walked the walk on this sort of
thing around the globe. We were wondering about the security,
like does Putin get to bring his own, you know,
Secret Service basically? And then we got our Secret Service
and has everybody armed to the teeth? From what I'm
(07:14):
told by an expert, Putin brings an arm to detail, Yes,
and we provide him Secret Service protection. That's part of
what the Secret Service does. And then given how close
the summit is in Alaska to Russia, one would be
rightly concerned. This is about snatching up Putin and arresting him,
one would be rightly concerned about a military response from Russia,
(07:35):
which is next door. They would have a security room
probably there at the meeting too, and would start advising
the military if he was apprehended. It could be done,
but it would, but it would obviously be beyond the
Norman would set a terrible precedent for the world. Let's
skip over that part. This person said, if I was
planning how to do it, you got to knock out
(07:56):
all the communications there, kill the security detail, putin security
detail immediately. You'd have to then get get him as
far away from alask as possible. That'd be the only
way to pull it off.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Well, yeah, yeah, I would agree, having been studying the
methods for dealing with foreign leaders in their security needs
when they come to the United States. But get him
as far away from Alaska as possible. Yeah, okay, all right,
Well we've got great jets and all. What Connecticut, I
don't Maine, what would that Miami Beach? Take him to
Miami Beach.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Well, you kill a security detail, you got him on
a helicopter, you get him to a plane, you get
him out of there fast.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And then have Dick Cheney take over you know, one
of those black sites.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right. Somebody did point out on the text line yesterday,
and I'm happy about this. We are not a signator
to the international court that declares who's a war criminal.
We do not sign that because otherwise these other freaking
weird old countries would decide Dick Cheney was a war criminal.
And then he shows up in Paris for some meeting
and he'd be arrested right right because of something with
(09:03):
Israel or who knows what. So we don't even believe
in that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
So, being curious about this whole topic, Guy dug into
it a little bit and came up with some pretty
interesting information.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And yeah, and Jack said, when a foreign.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Head of state or government visits the US, they almost
always bring their own security detail with them. Those agents
are responsible for the leader's personal safety, often travel with
them on the same plane. They are physically very very
close to the leader. The US Secret Service is still
in charge. They have primary responsibility for protecting foreign dignitaries
(09:37):
who or visiting. The visiting security team works closely with
the Secret Service, cannot operate independently. They coordinate roots, venues
and security perimeters together. They usually carry firearms only after
special permissions and credentialings. In practice, the US Secret Service
handles the outer perimeter like I don't know, aluminum shed,
(09:58):
with a clear line of sight to the President and
the and the overall security plan. Well. The foreign detail
stays physically close to the leader, like right at their
side in public. And then I was digging into this
on chat GPT, which is a great resource except when.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
It lies to you. Can you imagine that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
If that ever went sideways though for some reason, and
you got the arm to the teeth of Russian dudes
with the arm to the teeth US Secret Service both
protecting their each of the man, that would be quite
the scene. As I told my source yesterday, I said,
somebody's got to write this movie because that is an
interesting scene.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I saw a similar scene that happened to be a
couple of criminal organizations battling it out in the drama
Judy and I were watching. But yeah, it would be
it would be a blood path anyway. But it said,
I can give you real example of how this plays
out when say the British Prime Minister visits, And I said, no,
I'm more interested in an example where it's a foreign
leader of an adversary like China, and chat GPT told
(10:55):
me when it's an adversary nation like China, the dynamic
it's much more sensitive, but the basic structure is the same.
And I probably should have read about Putin, but it
was funny. Shixinping was the first person to come to
mind because he's been recently, though. My favorite part was
coordination is tense but formal. The two security teams meet
(11:17):
in advance, exchange very limited plans, agree on roots, motivate structures,
who stands where. The Chinese security team in this case,
and I'm sure Russia is the same, will usually insist
on driving in their own armored vehicles brought from China,
sometimes flown in with the delegation.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Weapons and legal permissions are tightly restricted. Extra surveillance on
both sides. US counterintelligence teams, FBI, Diplomatic Security Service, and
others will monitor the foreign security personnel closely, not just
for safety but also to prevent or detect espionage. The
foreign team may also be running its own counter surveillance
to spot potential threats or track where US personnel are.
(11:58):
And they actually go into the Chinese visit to Seattle
and Washington, d C. In twenty fifteen, and it's, uh,
it's interesting, and it's certainly the stuff of movies.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
But they break down further, step by step from the
inside out what the security is. And I'll just hitch
you with the close in the inner ring of security.
In the case of China, it would be the Chinese
Central Security Bureau. With Russia, it would be probably some
branch of the FSB. I don't know, but they're within
arms reach, often two to six agents who move with
leader at all times. Leader at all times, immediate protection
(12:34):
from sudden attacks, physical shielding, or rapid.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Evacuation, you know what.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
These are the only foreign agents who might be armed
in the US. My favorite question, I feel like we've
talked about this before and I don't remember who it
was with. But how crazy. So if if Trump swung
on Poutin or Putin swung on Trump and they're rolling
actual fisticuffs, Okay, if they're rolling around on the floor
(13:00):
ror like gouging each other's eyes and stuff like that,
who does what what happens?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I guess?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Well, so unlikely we're pitting a fat, old real estate
developer against an old kg B assassin.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Trump's weight ain't nothing, though, you know. Trump's taller and heavier.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
By a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, I don't see him moving fast enough to prevent
Putin putting a thumb clear to the back of his
eye socket and his Eyeball right, it isn't gonna be
like a hockey.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Match, though, I think where they all just back off
and let him fight. I mean, I assume the various
security details would get involved. I just don't know how
it would look. They're just gonna back off and let
him fight, let him work it out to be like
hockey refs. They'll just offer and they'll wait till somebody's
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
They're really getting hell being out of them.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, we got more next, So this is the top
five ways people slack at work.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Number five we have the hour before lunch, I'm hungry.
All I'm thinking about is I want to get the
hell out of here. Number four the hour directly after
a meeting. Paying attention during the meeting has absolutely cooked me.
Number three the hour after lunch, I'm depressed. All I
can think about now is how badly I want to
have a nap. Number two the first hour of the day,
quick socialized with the colleagues. Immediately looking to get a coffee.
(14:25):
I might turn my computer on and see if I
got an e urge of emails. Number one the last
hour of the day. I busted my ass all day.
Now it's time for me to start wrapping things up
and look for the exit door.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yeah, to clarify, obviously, it's the top five hours of
the day out of eight that you're going to waste
at work.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So if you I don't know about the meeting one,
but the other one's the hour before you end, you
could easily get into like short timers mode every day.
The first hour, you know, selling there's.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
No point in starting something that you know rises you know,
I'll start it tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And that first hour you're settling in, you're checking some emails,
some of them are personal, A lot of them are personal,
most of them are personal. And then before you get
around to your work, so now you've already killed two hours,
and then you got that hour after lunch where oh
I should eat so much, I'm so tired.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Oh oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It can easily be three hours of every day where
you're not very productive, which leaves you five.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
So I dug back into the whole security detail thing
with Russian examples, and I will tell you this practically guaranteed.
The Secret Service that is in charge of this sort
of thing is frantic right now because to have Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Was it the bearing straight between Russia and the US.
I mean it's a few dozen miles separating the two comes.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
How why is the bearing straight, Katie or how close?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I think they said something like they're fifty five miles
apart at the Diomede Islands, Russia and the United States.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
At its narrow ast, it's fifty one.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, there you go.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
So you got Putin's personal protection that comes from the
Federal Protective Service, extremely tense and careful negotiations with his
armed bodyguards, his advanced teams, scouting every location. The FSO
is highly insulurred, deeply distrustful of foreign security services, especially
(16:32):
in the US. They'd want to physically control every interaction
Putin has in spite of the fact that the Social
Security I'm sorry, the Secret Service would be in charge.
Heavy counter intelligence presence of the FBI in all directions, just.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Very tense.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I wonder how much nipers from both sides, the latter
being closely monitored in and restricted in position so that
nobody could get snatched up. Wow, of course it's the uh,
it's what they talk about that matters. That's going to
come out of that thing. Inflation numbers came out. We'll
talk about those days.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Israeli Company Defend Solutions CEO Zohar Halajmi says even off
the shelf drones can now be easily outfitted to drop
grenades or carry explosives. It is the latest concern of
lawmakers on Capitol Hill as they're calling for greater coordination
from federal agencies to protect large events like the twenty
twenty six World Cup and twenty twenty eight Olympics in
(17:38):
Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Where the hell would I get a grenade? Though I
suppose the evil doers would have grenades, so now I
don't know. Amazon, So all you need to do is
get a hold of some sort of explosive. You can
buy a drone anywhere and then fly it over whatever
event drop. I mean, that's it's inevitable.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Right, what a world.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
So inflation news came out today and there's a lot
of concern about back on Liberation Day that there is
going to be horrifying inflation because of the tariffs. Well
a lot of the tariffs got backed off until recently,
so we haven't had the inflation we thought, YadA, YadA, YadA. Anyway,
it's interesting how the three main newspapers in America's headlines
(18:28):
can be different. Wall Street Journal inflation held steady at
two point seven percent, and right underneath it it says
now rises after inflation report, which suggests good news. Right.
The New York Times, however, their headline is US inflation
report shows effects of President Trump's tariffs. Okay, that's not
(18:52):
at all what they said in the Wall Street drumk.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Wow, that's a leap. Those people are shameless.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
And then the Washington Post most fairly non committal also.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
But he hang on a say, how does it staying
the same show the effects of Trump's tariffs?
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Because well, they didn't all know it was going to
go down. Miss I complained about this earlier. But so
they always hit you with the main inflation number in
these publications, and then they say in the second paragraph,
of course the number that economists pay attention to is
the core inflation, and that actually went up a little bit.
And my question would be, if this is the number
that matters the most, then why isn't it the main number?
(19:30):
Why are you giving me some other number and then
telling me this isn't really important, though, here's the number
that's important. And then it went up a little bit
and they're blaming that on tariffs. Wow, but it just
went up a tiny bit.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
M hmm, whatever, you know, speaking of money, this is
one of my favorite stories of the day, and it
is utterly unnoticed. You probably will not hear it from
anybody but us. But in Texas, where they're doing a
lot of good stuff with conservative governing, they they've.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Past is that they've passed a law.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Oh, it's a priority for this month's special session of
the legislature, and it has to do with something we've
talked about for years, and it's one of my favorite themes.
That is, when the government excess itself becomes so big
and powerful, it becomes its own most important lobbyist. We're
(20:25):
doomed if the very you know, machine of government decides,
you know, feeding ourselves is what.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
We're really about.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And guess what we're right laws, we're doomed. So we're
probably doomed.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
And as John the excellent John Fund rates in the
National Review, one of the biggest obstacles to government reform
is bureaucracies using taxpayer dollars to lobby for higher taxes
than spending in a perpetual motion of big government growth. Particular,
that's exactly what I'm talking about. A long time problem
in Texas where County cities and even universities send armies
of labbyists to the legislature and stemy good fiscal policy.
(21:03):
Now we're finally seeing some progress and curbing this problem.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has had enough. He's made curbing
taxpayer funded lobbying a priority for this month's special session
of legislature. The state Senate has approved a bill that
would prevent cities, counties, and school districts from spending taxpayer
(21:24):
dollars to hire outside lobbyists. Wow, there's a state senator
who's a former county tax assessories observed local officials abused
their offices. He's a key supporter of the bill, he argued,
quote quote, Texans are being taxed twice, once to fund
local services and again to fund political lobbying they may
not support. He cited a report by the Texas Public
(21:47):
Policy Foundation that estimates that in twenty twenty three, local
governments spent almost ninety nine million dollars to hire contract lobbyists,
which is a significant increase from a couple of years before.
Another sponsor the bill emphasizes that it would do nothing
to restrict local officials' ability to lobby. The state legislature themselves.
(22:07):
He said, we just don't need a taxpayer funded lobbyist
middleman between our elected local officials and our elected state officials.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
This is.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
A more important version of one of our favorite things
that ever happened on our radio show, when one time
we ran two back to back PSAs government PSAs, so
paid for by the taxpayer. Those are public service announcements,
one suggesting you eat less dairy because it's bad for you,
and then your taxpayer money on the next PSA explaining
(22:39):
how you should eat more cheese. So one of them
eat less cheese, one of them eat more cheese for
prior tax money.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Oh my god, Hey, you got a laugh to keep
from crying. Oh that reminds me.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
But if you got taxpayer money going out and lobbying
for things that are the government, I mean, it's a
similar sort of deal.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That reminds me.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
The new trend you need to know about this hour,
because there will be another one next hour is.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Carnivore babies.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Swapping puade fruit for ribbi, the rise of animal heavy
diets for infants and toddlers, concerns and perplexes pediatricians.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Boy, I don't remember how much meat did my baby
eat anny? I don't remember. Do you feed a baby meat?
I don't even remember you do some.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You know, I can skip to the end of this.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Look, if you're a diet craze person, and I've known
a lot that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I feel like that, like jump on the new bandwagon
all the time.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Or at least semi frequently. M Yeah, they're very enthusiastic
about diet A. Then it's B, then it's C, then
it's D. And I think we've all worked with multiple
people like that. Some of them were very bright and
capable people. If you want to do that eating nothing
but meat and then go gluten free and then have
(24:04):
nothing but whole grains or whatever, and then.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Nothing bigger through the lens diet, nothing bigger than the
size of your fist, or only cave man ache cards or.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
A caveman diet or what go ahead, go ahead, but
you're gonna do it to your infant.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Come on.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Daria Quinnville's infant daughter was ready for solid food, but
she skipped the mushed up avocado and banana on the menu,
instead raw egg yolk and puade chicken liver. Her child's
Schizandra then moved on to sardines, butter, and ice pops
made out of bone broth. She gnawed on a leg
of lamb.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
She would just teeth on it and soothe herself. Freaking
bone broth people, You bone broth people wear me out.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
She isandras what her mom calls a carnivore baby.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Meat.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
That's right, sir. Most of her diet is meat, along
with other animal source foods like eggs and and of
course oh oh.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Some parents, Uh oh, here you go. Here's the good part.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
With the carnivore diet rising in popularity among adults, babies
and toddlers are getting in on it too, like they're
deciding to mom swap tips. Think directions for whipped bone
marrow on Facebook forums with names like Carnivore motherhood.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
If you say bone marrow to me, I exactly know
what sort of person you are. That's all I need
to hear is those two words. I know what. I
know so much about you. If you say the two
words bone marrow.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I don't know what the bone barrow does for you,
but it makes my ass tired.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That's the effect of that has of it.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Some parents say they're inspired by social media stars. A
handful of doctors who are raising their own carnivore babies
have YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands, even millions of subscribers.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You like the bone marrow Okay, you wore a mask
long beyond necessary, and we're all for the schools being
closed down and voting for Kamala Harrison like mom Donnie,
and all kinds of other things that go with bone marrow.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, a carnivore champion, has
loudly expressed as affinity for beef tallo. Yeah, the inevitable.
Some pediatricians are very concerned. Small children need vitamin C,
they need fiber, they need this, that and the other
for a functioning gut biome that are not prevalent and
meat heavy diet. Here's the crazy part, and this is
(26:27):
never going to be an effing craze.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Pardon me, but this sort of thing makes.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Me nuts because people want the super super simple. I
get the appeal of it on the chalkboard. No, all
I eat is this, and that's the way. Because a
caveman used to blah blah blah blah blah. No, you
know what cavemen probably eat plenty of leafy greens and
berries whenever they found them. Anyway, it's got to be
(26:54):
just super simple for people to get it. But virtually
every responsible doctor they talked to said, yeah, the protein's
good for the kid, but it needs this and that
and the other.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
How about you go for a balanced diet. Yeah, and
your child, Schizandra, Yeah, I understand weight loss crazes because
you're desperate to lose weight and you're hoping that this
new one is going to work and the other ones didn't.
Reality is, most studies have shown the one you stick
with is the one that works. So go with whichever
(27:25):
one you can keep doing. But uh, for your kid,
who doesn't need to lose weight, I don't know why
you get into a craze.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
So this this might have been my favorite part of
this article. Carnivor babies tend to have carnivore moms. Lorraine
b was trying to get pregnant when she stumbled upon
YouTube videos from doctors promoting meat based diets for fertility.
As a registered dietitian, you're herself, Yeah, I'm glad they
make them register, you know, like sex offenders. They ought
(27:54):
to be on some sort of registry somewhere a bunch
of craze, pitch and nut jobs. Not all of you,
not all of you. All right, go ahead write your
angry email anyway. So, as a registered dietitian herself, she
was skeptical about the meat based fertility diets.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I said, that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Then she became obsessed, watching hours of videos a day
and devouring comments from women who said eating only animal
foods helped them conceive. So she went mostly carnivore two
and a half years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
And didn't get pregnant, so they adopted a kid.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But she's stuck on the carnivore diet now feeding it
to her a kid.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
There needs to be a law in journalism against finding
a nut job and then building an entire article around it.
That's like half of journalism in the modern world. So
she got obsessed with it and watched hours of videos
a day. That's not normal, and then it didn't want
to her any good. That's completely abnormal.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Top But because she's a simpleton that needs to latch
onto the overly simple solution, she's stuck with it in
spite of lack of results, and now has become a
carnivore mom. Final note, her little girl is of course
on a carnivore style diet too. If it makes sense
for adults, why wouldn't it make sense for kids? She said,
as a licensed dietitian. She spoke those words aloud, registered dietitian.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
That's right, put them on our registry.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Isabella eats bits of eggs, shredded cheese, yogurt, and puade,
ground beef and chicken liver. She licks butter off a
spoon bunch of butter lickors and gets bone broth in
her bottle. There you go, there's your bone broth. The
tablo has four teeth, likes to gum, ribbis and lambones.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
All right, great, good for you. Oh my god, Sahn
plug the internet?
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Well, I think the internet might kill off trends, which
would be a good thing, mostly because I saw the
Wall Street Journal the other day had in their fashion
section the return of skinny jeans. Now, as far as
I can tell, skinny jeans left like six months ago,
and they've returned already, so most yeah, so, I mean
it's even last week. If something returns that fast, maybe
(30:06):
it'll just be the end of trends.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Well, right, you'd like to be a slavish follower of
whatever's hot. But you literally don't have time to get
to the store before.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
That trend is over this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Right, Yeah, that would be great.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
God, how many years ago was it that Chris Rock
said here today, gone today? But that was like twenty
years ago, and he said that it's way more that
now than it was then.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Hilarious, trends are over by the time you speak the
sentence required to describe them.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah, you and your bone.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Bag, all right, k f y b BB, keep feeding
your baby bone broth all right?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
More all the way, stare.
Speaker 5 (30:52):
I think everybody knows that how this war ends, it
can be a good thing or bad thing.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
If it ends in a way.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
It looks like that Putin's overly rewarded.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
There goes Taiwan.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
You can't end a war without talking. I do hope
that Zelenski can be part of the process. I'll leave
it up to the White House, but I come on
your show a good bit. I want to be honest
with you. Ukraine's not gonna evict every Russia Russian and
Russia is not going to keep so there'll be some
land swaps at the end.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Yeah. Well, Putin's trying to have more land swap. So
this is breaking news. Moscow troops make massive advance in
Ukraine days before the summit. They are now six miles
further in than they were two days ago and have
surrounded three more towns that they did not have control
of seventy two hours ago.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
And they want is a master stroke by the master manipulator.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Well plus, if it's gonna end up being a like
the rmbassador, the US Master to NATO, to the U
n whoever it was one of our investors, I think
our ambassador to NATO said, you don't get to have
any land that you haven't fought foreign control. Well he was,
He's going to fight foreign control as much land as
he can before maybe some sort of offer. I have
(32:14):
no idea.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
Yeah, expend whatever he has to expend right now to
a snatch up as much land as possible, having been
told by our NATO ambassador what he needed to do
to keep the land. Nice job, and secondly make it
clear that a I'll grab it all. Look how much
ground I've gained in the last couple of weeks unless
(32:35):
you give it you know, these regions to me that
I'm asking for, or I will go nuts and take
it all, and you know, Trump might say, yeah, it's
better for Ukraine if we settle right now. So Putin
wins a lot. This is not all the time, but
he wins a lot because he's brutal.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
He's absolutely brutal. Bullies always win a lot until somebody
is willing to stand up to them. That's just the
history of bullies. This is one of the When has
there been a high level meeting with more drama than
this one? I can't know if I can remember one.
You might have to go back to the Cold War.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
But even then, they didn't have big meetings unless most
of the agenda was already set.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
You already knew what was going to happen.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Right, it was just a ceremonial with maybe a couple
of details to be hashed out. But I mean this
is like all question marks.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Right, and personalities or tempers or whatever could flare. I mean,
it could have an impact, right, absolutely could. Trump said
yesterday he will call Zelensky. First first thing he'll do
is when he comes out of the meeting, he'll call,
he said, as a as a sign of respect, I'll
(33:52):
I'll call Zelensky right away. So man, So let's he's
got to be waiting by the phone for that one.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
What if our listeners suggested a convincing bald eagle like
drone flying in through a window and taking Putin out?
I don't think we can rule that out.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I mentioned something earlier about Dick Cheney being a war
criminal according to the rest of the world. We got
this text, Dick Cheney is a war criminal. You chirping minstrels.
Oh wow, wow, chirping minstrels.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
That's one of my favorite insults ever.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
As you spoke those words, I thought, well, you know,
there's some argument that but chirping minstrels style points. Well done,
sir or madam.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Hey, do we have a time on the summit with
Putin and Trump yet? In Alaska and then I don't know,
there're time zone. We ought to nail a lot of
that down because I would like to know when I'm
gonna start getting drips and drabs of news coming out
of that.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah, Alaska has its own like funky far West time zone, right,
I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I don't know it's it. It's part of the United States.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I want to get a little more into Russia's probably
strategy Friday, and it ain't good Next Hour If you
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Yeah, make it as easy as possible. Cool, We've got
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